daisy-chain routers?

Is it possible to plug a router's uplink into the port of another
router? I wish to use a wireless router and a wired router at the same
time. Thanks.

Shawn

 

Yes, plug uplink to regular port. Disable things like DHCP on all but one
of the routers, or else you could get conflicts.

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Yes, it's possible. Just set the gateway of the second router to the IP
address of the first router. Everything else should be set up as DHCP, so
everything else should work automatically.

Sean

 

I second this suggestion. I forgot to mention that in my own reply.

Sean

 

You can have 2 routers but you will have to decide which one you want to be
your DHCP server, disable DHCP on the other routerand change the IP address
so that is on the same network (e.g..192.168.1.x) I reccomend assinging it
an address that is outside the range of the starting address of the DHCP
server.

If you already have a hard wired router then just get a wireless access
point and make it easy on yourself or just sell the hard wired router to a
friend that needs/wants one and just get the wireless one since you can
connect wired and wireless computers on it.

 

Aren't they BOTH servers? One accesses the ISP...and the other
accesses the other router.

I've never had to do this. Just hook them up...and they work fine.


Have a nice week...

Trent

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That's nice to know. Thanks to Trent and everyone else for the response.

Shawn

 

You never had to do this.... hmmmm


Well I have this exact setup and this is what I had to do.. what brands are
yo working with?

 

Shawn,

I really would not follow that advice. Both routers will conflict with each
other.

 

Mostly D-link, Linksys and Siemens.

Don't get me wrong...I'm by no means a networking expert. But, for my
workbench machines, all I do is connect a router to my main router in
another part of the building. All it really does is act as a hub,
AFAIK...since its not configured to connect to my ISP.

YMMV...and it sounds like it does.


Have a nice week...

Trent

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If both routers have a built in DHCP server, and they are both serving IPs
in the same range, you have a chance of two machines on your network
getting, for example, 192.168.1.100.

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It's Netgear but is a good example. You should also think about using the
VPN protocols between the two and secure the wired and wireless secgments,
since you have that oppertunity.

http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/N101236.asp

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,5171179~root=security,1~mode=flat

You should think abount making the wired router the Internet (WAN) facing
device and not port forward any ports to the safe zone router.

Duane

 

All right... I'll look for the DHCP setting when I get the wireless router,
thanks.

Shawn

 

OK I just got a new wireless router and I'm trying to do this. I'd appreciate
some further clarifications from you guys:

1) When my old wired router acts as the only DHCP server, it means wireless
devices are assigned their IP from that wired router instead of the new
wireless one, which simply acts as an access point to the wired router, is
this right?

2) "WAN" setting for the new wireless router: should I use "Dynamic IP
address", as opposed to "static IP address"?

3) "LAN IP" setting for the new wireless router: should I enter an IP that's
in the range offered by the DHCP server?

Thanks.
Shawn

 

I just realized from this diagram
http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/N101236.asp
that I'm not supposed to use the uplink/WAN port when I use the second router as
an access point. So I just connected one of the ports to the first router.

But now I can't access the wireless browser's setup page in the browser, the IP
address I assigned seems to be gone. I can however access the wired router's
setup.

 

Never mind, a hard reset was what I needed...

 

Right.

It shouldn't matter, as you should not have anything plugged into the
second router's WAN port.

No, that could cause an IP conflict with another machine should it be
assigned the same address.

If, for example, your server is handing out 192.168.1.100-192.168.1.150,
and the first router is 192.168.1.1, make the new router 192.168.1.2.

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I think you're going to have to plug a machine directly into the wireless
router to configure it.

Duane

 

ok, I'll try that later, thanks for the reply.

 

Thanks for the advice.