Laptop can't ping router...

Hi All

Can someone help with this layout?



______________
} Cable Modem |
-------|-------
| (Wired)
________|__________
| Wired Router |
} 192.168.123.254 |
| |
| DMZ= |
| 192.168.123.4 |
--------|----------
| (Wired)
________|_________
| Access Point |
} 192.168.123.4 |
| |
| Gateway= |
| 192.168.123.254 |
---------/---------
|
\ (Wireless)
________/._________
| Laptop |
} 192.168.123.10 |
| |
| Gateway= |
| 192.168.123.4 |
-------------------

The laptop cannot ping the router, only the access point.

It doesn't matter if the laptop's gateway address is set to
the routers, 192.168.123.254

Thanks in advance!

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:53:19 -0800, John Schuler <jrs.DeleteThis@san.rr.com> wrote:

>Hi All
>
>Can someone help with this layout?
>
>
>
> ______________
> } Cable Modem |
> -------|-------
> | (Wired)
> ________|__________
> | Wired Router |
> } 192.168.123.254 |
> | |
> | DMZ= |
> | 192.168.123.4 |
> --------|----------
> | (Wired)
> ________|_________
> | Access Point |
> } 192.168.123.4 |
> | |
> | Gateway= |
> | 192.168.123.254 |
> ---------/---------
> |
> \ (Wireless)
> ________/._________
> | Laptop |
> } 192.168.123.10 |
> | |
> | Gateway= |
> | 192.168.123.4 |
> -------------------
>
>The laptop cannot ping the router, only the access point.
>
>It doesn't matter if the laptop's gateway address is set to
>the routers, 192.168.123.254
>
>Thanks in advance!

If you've disabled DHCP on the laptop, you have to specify an actual gateway
device address - ie: your router's LAN address - if you ever want your static
addressing scheme to work.

Try this: set the laptop to use DHCP - and don't specify a gateway address.
Let the DHCP server on your LAN (ie: the router) answer your laptop's request
for ip address/dns server addresses/etc.

If that works, you don't have any electrical/functional problems with the
network; you have a misconfigured LAN client...

/daytripper