Wants to have Ethernet connection to printer and wireless Internet in a desktop.
by AwesomeMachine from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6CGE8)
The problem is, the Ethernet interface configures itself in a different subnet than the DHCP server. I use one of my old tricks.
You take a fast switch and connect it to one of the inside ports on a cheap router. Then the router is just a DHCP server, one port to the switch.
That DHCP server is 192.168.0.255. The printer is also plugged into it. But then desktop with wireless configures a 192.168.1.255 address. And if wired is up, wireless goes dead. Turn off wired, wireless is back. and wireless and wired are on different subnets.
So, how am I going to print?
You take a fast switch and connect it to one of the inside ports on a cheap router. Then the router is just a DHCP server, one port to the switch.
That DHCP server is 192.168.0.255. The printer is also plugged into it. But then desktop with wireless configures a 192.168.1.255 address. And if wired is up, wireless goes dead. Turn off wired, wireless is back. and wireless and wired are on different subnets.
So, how am I going to print?