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Re: network issue





On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. <roy@rtellason.com> wrote:
This isn't strictly debian-related,  so if there's a better place for this feel free to point me at it and I'll try there...

Back when my LAN was a workstation and a DSL modem,  and a bit later on a routher/firewall was added,  and a server,   then later on a second workstation.  Wifi was an old (now older and very flaky) AP.  These days wifi is also provided by the "modem" (Hugesnet,  who is completely useless for help on this) and it's dual band and seems overall faster.

The problem is when I'm using that wifi I have no access to my local server,  I can only get to it by way of the old flaky AP that's internal to the LAN.

Particulars:  The "modem" is 192.168.1.1,  the WAN side of the router is 192.168.1.2,  the server on the other side of the router is 192.168.0.1,  and the workstations get DHCP addresses assigned when they connect,  as do any devices (a couple of phones and a tablet) that connect to the wifi. 

Are the workstations, phones and tablets able to communicate with each other? If they can communicate with each other then the easiest route would be too connect the server to the WiFi. Here is a Free Software Supported 802.11n USB Dongle https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb

 
Is there any simple way to get that external wifi to point to my internal server when a 192.168.x.x address is used?


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