trouble daisy-chaining router

Dec 28, 2006 3 Replies
M

I have a linksys 4 port router that had wireless connected to my external modem. It had a standard config of 192.168.1.1 for the gateway. There are computers with 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3 ont he network. Its also configured for dhcp for other computers to plug in and get an ip.



The wireless part stopped working so I went and bought a netgear router that has 4 ports and wireless as well.



I wanted to keep the linksys router in the closet and connect the new netgear router in my office area.



I'm wondering what the network config should be on the new router. I configured it as 192.168.1.49, the gateway is 192.168.1.1. and the dns is the same as a computers on the network.



When I connect another pc to the netgear router it can not pick up an ip, even though i configured it with dhcp as well.



Any help is appreciated.



Mike



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M

There should be only be one DHCP server on the network, which should be on the gateway router. One of the routers should become a switch by disabling the DHCP on the router.

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It doesn't make any difference when connecting two routers together when one just becomes a switch, wire to wire, wireless to wire, wireless to wireless, make, brand name or model. The principles are the same.

If it's the wireless router, then it becomes a wire/WAP swicth.

Duane :)

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He should also change the gateway router to a different base IP like

192.168.2.1 to keep from overlapp>> I have a linksys 4 port router that had wireless connected to my

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No, he would leave the gateway router as is and change the Device IP on the second router to be a static IP like 192.168.1.5 on the gateway, so that machines can share resources on the gateway and the switch, if he wants to share resources. All machines would get their DHCP from the gateway router or use a static IP on the gateway router, even the ones using the wire/WAP switch.

Duane :)

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