Sharing nas access over 2 networks different ISP connection within home

lorry75

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Hi there,I'm hopefully looking for some help with my setup issue.

I have 2 internet connections at my house, one is a works line and the 2nd one, I'm currently paying for. I'm looking to keep both internet connections to work as normal, but was looking to share a single ethernet port Nas drive between the 2 connections.

Network A - Netgear router (DHCP IP range 192.168.1 *) switch
Will be used as main connection.

Network B - Dlink router (static ip range 192.168.2.*) / Nas Drive / connected to unmanaged switch

I wanted to be able to store files on the Nas drive hooked up to the Dlink, and move and store files on the Nas drive. The Dlink router connection, has a much much superior upstream speed on this connection, and would be basically only really used when away from home for remote access.

How do i go about configuring the routers? how do i get network A to see network B , i've connected a patch lead from the router to the switch, and when on same IP range, this was picking up the Nas drive, but obvious conflict issues with accessing the routers due to the same router IP address, but since changing the IP range on network B, i'm not sure how else i go about configuring the routers? any helpful advice would be really appreciated.

 
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Hi, you need to make one subnet (with two gateways). Your routers do not have enough (configurable) interfaces to create the routed environment between the .1. and .2. subnets.

You need to have both routers in the same IP range but obviously each with its own IP address in that range. You would probably disable the DHCP functionality on the Dlink (so that the netgear handles this and configures most clients to gateway through itself). However on the NAS you would manually configure the IP settings and ensure you set the IP address of the dlink router as the gateway (thereby ensuring the NAS uses the dlink connection).

noise

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Hi, you need to make one subnet (with two gateways). Your routers do not have enough (configurable) interfaces to create the routed environment between the .1. and .2. subnets.

You need to have both routers in the same IP range but obviously each with its own IP address in that range. You would probably disable the DHCP functionality on the Dlink (so that the netgear handles this and configures most clients to gateway through itself). However on the NAS you would manually configure the IP settings and ensure you set the IP address of the dlink router as the gateway (thereby ensuring the NAS uses the dlink connection).
 
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lorry75

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Thanks noise for your advice. I have now changed the dlink gateway and changed the statics Ip to on the same subnet, and I can now all device across both networks. Again thanks for your help.