How to get my truenas server on network B to communicate with network A

[hAtul]

Hello

I have the main router with its own network (192.168.1.1) and I have another router connected to it - but with a different network (192.168.0.1).
- I want my plex server on network 192.168.0.1 to communicate and share content with 192.168,1.1 which has the smart tv on.
- I want the devices on the main network (192.68.1.1) to be able to access the hard drives exposed by truenas from the network 192.168..0.1 where the truenas server is on.

I had them both sharing the same network which works perfectly, the problem was that the wifi channels were interfering with each other while cannot change the channel on the second router while sharing the same network. + I noticed that my network is way faster without the other one.

 

[c77dk]

Sounds like a simple routing issue to solve. Basically the routers need to know the networks of the other router and have appropriate firewall rules enabled.

 

[sretalla]

Whichever of your routers isn't connected to the Internet needs to be taken out of NAT mode and act as a proper router and not a gateway/firewall/NAT router.

Depending on your hardware, that may or may not be possible.

What you might be better able to do is connect the 2 "router devices" together via a LAN port on both and disable DHCP on the one that isn't Internet connected and then use only the single 192.168.1.0/24 network.

 

[pschatz100]

The second router can also be configured as a bridge. Or if they are relatively modern Asus routers - you could use AI-Mesh.

I would say you have lots of options.