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Network setup:
telephone socket
|
|cable
| ____|-------|
|---------------| / : |ClientZ|
|Wireless-Router|------------- : |_______|
|_______________| radio-waves \ :
| \___|-------|
|cable |ClientW|
| |_______|
|--------------|
|Gigabit-Switch|
|______________|
| ... |
cables
| ... |_______
| |
|-------| |-------|
|ClientX| ... |ClientY|
|_______| |_______|
Configuration:
- Switch (D-Link DGS-1005D)
- Router: (FritzBox Fon-Wlan 7113)
- IP: 192.168.0.1
- Subnet-mask: 255.255.255.0
- DHCP active, assign IPs from 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.99
- Clients:
- IP: Retrieve dynamic IP via DHCP
- Subnet-mask: 255.255.255.0
- Gate-way: 192.168.0.1
- DNS-server: 192.168.0.1
- All clients use the IP protocol version 4
- Clients are a wild mix of Windows XP, Windows 7, Mac OS X, iOS (+1 new wlan-printer)
- All clients use basically the same network/firewall configuration (windows and mac os respectively)
Problem:
- All clients can access the internet. fine
- All clients can access the router (ping it, access its configuration site via http). fine
- All clients connected via cables to the gigabit-switch can see each other and exchange files. fine
- None of the wirelessly connected clients can see/ping any other client. bad =,(
- None of the clients connected via cables to the switch can see/ping any of the clients wirelessly connected to the router.bad =,(
This problem existed since I setup the network. It never bothered my since I was satisfied by being able to exchange files between the clients connected to the switch. But now I would like to access the ones connected wirelessly as well (mainly because of the printer).
I tried to ping them via their IP address (visible in the router), but got a timeout. Since the clients connected to the switch don't suffer from this problem I suspect the problem is with the router. Somehow it doesn't correctly route access to clients in the local network.
Unfortunately I don't know where to start trouble shooting, since I know nothing about networks. So I'm looking very much forward to Your suggestions/hints/advise.
Can you clarify - from your statement, the clients on the wire can ping each other by IP address. No one can see any wireless clients. No one can ping anyone else by name. Is this correct? – Blackbeagle – 2011-03-09T20:05:32.170
Would you say exactly what OS the clients are using eg :client Z = Windows, Client W = ... etc... – Linker3000 – 2011-03-09T20:17:54.360
@blackbeagle @linker3000 There are 8 clients, 4 connected to the switch via cable, 4 wirelessly to the router. Both of these groups contain windows xp, 7 and mac os x. After the changes maqleod proposed the situation has slightly changed: The wired clients can ping any other client by ip/name. The wireless clients can't ping anybody by anything (but they can access the internet). – Dave O. – 2011-03-09T21:58:07.050