my friend has a problem up at school, she has only one ethernet jack for a two person room... usually i'd just say router and forget it, but the jack is supplying an DHCP assigned IP in the 192.168.X.X range...

i've never run into switching an already switched device, and i was wondering how i would go about getting a router/switch/hub linked up and working correctly in the room.

 

a wired router wouldn't work? you sure?

I had had a 4 port router back in college and it did exactly what you're looking for.



if the room is for 2 people and there's only 1 internet jack ... the university's IT / LAN department should have to provide some solution for this.

 

sooo are you saying she has to set her computer ip at that address to use the drop?


if so why not set the router with the assigned ip address then just plug into the router...wouldnt that work?

 

router would work fine. plug from the wall to the "internet" port on the router. you may need to have the router handing out on a different ip range

 

i thought IP's of 192.168.X.X couldnt be routed because they already are...

:edit:

most schools give each jack a specific IP address that isn't already a part of a private network, i know it will work for ip's outside of the 192.168 range... i'm just wondering basically if you could in theory plug one router into another one and still have everything work (but of course not having control over any of the settings of the first one)

 

nope, it should work just fine.

 

sure you can. at work we have static ip's at each desk. i have a router plugged into mine and ive had 4 pc's hooked up at a time with no problem..

joo can du it

 

alright, i've basically figured it out... i think if i turn off DHCP on the router it should allow the DHCP of the schools network take care of everything thx guys

 

In other words you could just hook up a cheapo switch and accomplish the same thing.

edit: you can plug in a router to it just fine, just use a different internal IP range. Like 10.x.x.x. As long as there's no conflict with something already on the network, you don't need to change their setup, just yours. It'd work fine.

 

yeah I should have caught that earlier. :doh: