communicating across subnets - static routing?

[jmarks]

I just added an ASUS RT-AC66U to go behind my HGV 3600 wireless gateway. I did this because the 2WIRE gateway cannot handle more than 4 wired devices. (Connecting a switch to one of the LAN ports of the gateway is fine, until 4 devices are exceeded, then connectivity is intermittent and DNS lookups routinely fail. It took me 3 months to figure this out).
By the way, I disabled the wireless on the gateway, and am using the wireless on the ASUS, but I don't think this is relevant to my question.

I am operating this ASUS router as a router-behind-router, and so I have two subnets - the gateway provides a 192.168.1.XXX address to the ASUS, and the ASUS provides 192.168.2.XXX to the devices connected to it.
I must have my NAS and a windows box connected directly to the gateway, because the gateway supplies them with static ips. The other devices on the network do not need static ips, and I have put them all on the 192.168.2 network.

I would like to set things up so that my networked printer can be accessed from devices from either subnet. My static ips, assigned by AT&T, are 99.43.***.***, and the gateway lets those ips get to the local subnet 192.168.1.*** network .

Is this a situation where static routing is needed?

Unfortunately. I know nothing about static routes - what they are or how to write the rules.
Do I put the printer on the .2 network, and create a static route from my static ips to the printer? If so, what would a rule look like?
Or do I put the printer on the .1 network, and route the devices on the .2 network to the printer?

I have done some googling, but don't really have a handle on this at all.
Any suggestions from those in the know would be very much appreciated!
Thanks to all for your help.

 

[vdemarco]

I just added an ASUS RT-AC66U to go behind my HGV 3600 wireless gateway. I did this because the 2WIRE gateway cannot handle more than 4 wired devices. (Connecting a switch to one of the LAN ports of the gateway is fine, until 4 devices are exceeded, then connectivity is intermittent and DNS lookups routinely fail. It took me 3 months to figure this out).
By the way, I disabled the wireless on the gateway, and am using the wireless on the ASUS, but I don't think this is relevant to my question.

I am operating this ASUS router as a router-behind-router, and so I have two subnets - the gateway provides a 192.168.1.XXX address to the ASUS, and the ASUS provides 192.168.2.XXX to the devices connected to it.
I must have my NAS and a windows box connected directly to the gateway, because the gateway supplies them with static ips. The other devices on the network do not need static ips, and I have put them all on the 192.168.2 network.

I would like to set things up so that my networked printer can be accessed from devices from either subnet. My static ips, assigned by AT&T, are 99.43.***.***, and the gateway lets those ips get to the local subnet 192.168.1.*** network .

Is this a situation where static routing is needed?

Unfortunately. I know nothing about static routes - what they are or how to write the rules.
Do I put the printer on the .2 network, and create a static route from my static ips to the printer? If so, what would a rule look like?
Or do I put the printer on the .1 network, and route the devices on the .2 network to the printer?

I have done some googling, but don't really have a handle on this at all.
Any suggestions from those in the know would be very much appreciated!
Thanks to all for your help.

Do a google search about DMZ and Uverse.

I have the same setup, basically my RT-AC66u, is set up on the 2wire, in the DMZ.

i have 8 devices connected at any time, and it works just fine.

 

[jmarks]

Do a google search about DMZ and Uverse.
I have the same setup, basically my RT-AC66u, is set up on the 2wire, in the DMZ.
i have 8 devices connected at any time, and it works just fine.

I know about the DMZ. Do you have devices on the two subnets? How do they see each other?