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Question

Subnetting question

Apr 12, 2018 3:49PM PDT

I have several computers on a wireless network. No issues there. On one of the computers, I have a switch connected to the ethernet port, and two NAS boxes on the switch. I can see the NAS boxes from the computer they are attached to. The wireless Router is 192.168.1.1 . The Network card is 169.254.209.253 (preferred). I would like to make the NAS boxes visible to all computers on the network. Is there a way to do this? Can I assign the NIC to a vacant IP address on the 192.168.1.XXX network? If not, how can I make them available to all computers on the wireless network?

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Clarification Request
Why are you using 169.x.x.x?
Apr 12, 2018 3:58PM PDT

That's the address when the DHCP fails. Something else is wrong here, not a subnet issue.

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RE: using 169.x.x.x
Apr 12, 2018 4:05PM PDT

That is what is given if I run ipconfig /all. If i run arp -a I get the following:
Interface: 169.254.209.253 --- 0x2
Internet Address Physical Address Type
169.254.115.114 00-1d-73-20-8e-d4 dynamic
169.254.129.13 60-02-92-1e-23-f7 dynamic
169.254.130.244 00-d0-b8-1e-33-73 dynamic
169.254.255.255 ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff static
224.0.0.22 01-00-5e-00-00-16 static
224.0.0.252 01-00-5e-00-00-fc static
224.0.1.60 01-00-5e-00-01-3c static
239.255.255.250 01-00-5e-7f-ff-fa static
255.255.255.255 ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff static

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Sorry if I wasn't clear.
Apr 12, 2018 4:08PM PDT

169.x.x.x is a self assigned address and not used when you are on your LAN. You need to fix that.

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Sorry if I wasn't clear.
Apr 13, 2018 4:03AM PDT

Thanks. Can I assign it to an empty IP address within the range of my wireless router (192.168.1.xxx), or should I create a new subnet? I want to make the NAS boxes attached to the NIC card available to the entire network. I appreciate your time in this matter.