DCHP does not assign an IP address. Please help, sorta urgent?

Question

I got a Dell something-or-other, refurbished. I hooked it up to my home network which has a setup like this:

Internet <> Router 1 <> ethernet <> Router 2
Both are wireless but I have my main computer connected wirelessly to Router 2 and this Dell one wired to the first. The reason I don't connect to router 1 wirelessly is because it's an unbranded ISP supplied one and router 2, is netgear and has FAr better range.

Basically, on router 1, I have a 'network map' of my network. I have Unknown on ethernet port 1 (the netgear router) and also Jack (the main PC). I connected the Dell to ethernet port 2 and it doesn't show it's name, just "Unknown-00-06-5b-ad-c1-d1" which I guess is the MAC address. The computer is called Dell and that's what it should show.

Do you people have any ideas as I can't share files with it like this which is a nessecity. If I manually set the IP, I can access the internet just not the other PC, and it shows as Unknown-00-06-5b-ad-c1-d1

Thanks.

Sorry, I was in a it of a rush.

I am NOT clueless thank you very much.

I know it's DHCP, it's called a typo.

The routers are on the same subnet 255.255.255.0 and the two computers are in the same workgroup.

I had this computer on wireless, and another computer wired to the second router and it worked fine. The first router deals out the Ip addresses, the DHCP server on router 2 is disabled.

I tried the problem PC plugged straight into the second router and still no luck.

Answer 1

yes you dont know what you are talking about #1

and if you have PC1 into router 1 via wire
and PC2 into router 2 via wireless

they are obviously on two networks. plug PC1 into router 2 and make sure DHCP service is enabled on your router. I am assuming you are talking about those broadband routers that have DHCP service.

update:

take away router 2 and put everything on router 1. You should be on the same network then, in order to get to that PC you need to browse via IP unless you have a DNS server or if you are using an additional protocol other than IP

Answer 2

I agree with the second poster about the first one -- he's clueless.

You need to enable DHCP on router number 1 so that the machine connected to it will get an address. The DHCP server on router 2 will not serve addresses on router 1's subnet.

If you want to share files, you'll need to put your wireless in the DMZ on the second router. Not sure if that's supported but it's the only way you'll share files between the 2 subnets. The reason is that the routers act as NAT firewalls and won't allow inbound connections so anything connected to router 1 will not be able to communicate with anything on router 2. Alternatively you'll have to port forward everything on router 2 to your wireless PCs IP address. There are 65535 ports so you've got your work cut out for you...

Better yet, ditch the 2 router setup. As you have figured out, it's a pig to get it working properly.

Answer 3

in case you have a great style of computers then that's greater straightforward to have dynamically assigned IP handle in case you have a DHCP server set up. the only time that I particularly have got here upon statically assigned IP handle to be needed is with some ftp purposes or some badly written purposes. in any different case, dynamically works fantastic.

Answer 4

This trouble can be made by:
1- A firewall on your PC or Network
2- Also problem of your Operating System (software)
3- And your network interface problem (Hardware)
You must check it step by step. The first one can resolve easily by changing the firewall configurations, second one is a bit harder than the first one, maybe you oblige to change your OS and third one is the big problem and you must change your hardware to solve the problem.
(Oh.. I forgot notice that the viruses can made such problems)

Answer 5

Scuse me but that would be dHCp not DCHP! other wise I haven't a clue.