I apologize for such a newbie question, but I'm not a routing person but because of staffing issues and some stringent time pressures I have to implement this myself.
I'm lost on how to get a very simple routing setup working for 2 Windows domains. The first domain is domain1.com on subnet
192.168.1.0/24 and is on the 1st floor of the building, on the second floor I have domain2.com with a subnet of 192.168.2.0/24. The two networks are physically connected with a single ethernet cable. I have set up a trust relationship between the two domains, but I can't figure out how to make it work.At first I thought I could just directly connect each switch in each network together with the cable running between them. But this didn't work because the computers on the two domains are on different subnets. So now I'm thinking all I need is a router with a static routing table set up. I'm not sure how to set this up or if this is the correct solution. Merging the two subnets is not an option either... I'm confused on how to do a routing setup that would work, and all of the examples on the internet I can find with static routes show two routers, one on each network. Do I have to have 2 routers to do this? It seems excessive for such a simple setup, and I'm very tight on money at the moment. Also I don't need any kind of fancy firewalling between the networks, I want all traffic destined for one to transparently be routed to the other and vice versa. Any kind of help would be appreciated. Thanks.