Connecting to BOINC on a separate subnet.

[Bok]

Anyone have any suggestions for this?

I've got a wired ethernet for most of my servers in the house all on 192.168.1.x via my Edge Firewall. I control all the boinc instances using BoincTasks just fine.

Recently though I built a PC for my daughter to game with. One of the 24core HP Z600's. However her room does not have ethernet, so using a wireless USB, I'm connecting her to my Deco wireless mesh system. That gives out addresses on the 192.168.0.x subnet.

The main DECO hub has a 192.168.1.180 address and from her PC I can ping and attach to the .1 subnet servers just fine as it probably setup all the routing, but I can't do the reverse...

I tried on my Edge router adding a static route to the 192.168.0.0/24 subnet using 192.168.1.180 but no luck.

Any options to get it to work this way ?

1. I could probably set up a new wireless router on my .1
2. I could see if I could reconfigure the DECO mesh system on .1
3. ?

[scole of TSBT]

Setting everything to a subnet of 16 (192.168.255.255) might work. What is the gateway of your daughter's PC? If it's the Edge router, it won't be able see it on the other subnet. Easiest would be to set the Deco DHCP server to give out a small set of IPs on 192.168.1.x and make sure those are excluded from the other DHCP server pool.

[Bok]

hmm, on the DECO setup (aka a TP-LINK). the WAN and LAN can't be on the same subnet.

So the WAN is setup on my regular 192.168.1.x subnet whereas the LAN IP is set to 192.168.0.1 which I can't change and the DHCP addresses come from there.

I'll check what the gateway is on my daughters machine. Should it be the 192.168.1.180 ? I guess it's whatever the wifi DHCP sent to it, but I could hardcode if needed.

I guess my question is, can the DECO act as a gateway both ways, hence me trying a static route using it's WAN address.

[scole of TSBT]

Can the deco be setup as just an access point instead of a router?

Take a look...https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/1842/

and use ethernet backhaul on the access points

[Bok]

That might do the trick. I'll give it a go