Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 2:43 Post subject: Static Route - maybe i'm misunderstanding something?
so all the computers on my LAN all have 192.168.1.xx addresses. I have a single device on the lan with a static ip 10.10.10.18 (its a piece of equipment i'm testing...)
so I ASSUmed that I could setup a static route to allow my computer to access this 10.10.10.18 device.
using the GUI I set destination LAN NET to 10.10.10.0, subnet mask to 255.255.255.0, gateway 0.0.0.0 and interface LAN/WLAN
Wrong approach. Instead, you need to bind that same network to the router. Now when the target is referenced by a client on the primary network, it goes to the router, which then routes it back into the LAN and over to the target.
(The 10.10.10.xxx device and the 192.168.1.xx PC that needs to access it are both on the lan side of the same router).
One other thing I noticed, it seems I had to go in to the 10.10.10.xxx devices and explicitly set their default gateways to 10.10.10.1 to make it work reliably. Which makes sense since they have static ip addresses.