2 Routers (4 port plus 4port w/wireless) home network

"Duane Arnold" hath wroth:

Medium

Your D-Link can probably be made to act as a switch.

Turn off DHCP on the D-Link (and any other firewall/filtering you can). Connect from the Linksys to a LAN port on the D-Link.

DHCP must be enabled on only one router, preferably the one connected to the modem.

__modem__[wan]router[lan]__[lan]router

You may need to use an uplink port or a crossover cable to make the router[lan]__[lan]router connection.

Duane Arnold wrote: I got

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Can someone send the same details for the DLink Di-524? I found "Static IP" (vs. switching off DHCP)? I was then ask to fill in a primary DNS (where would I get that from?). Should I just put in like 255.255.255.0?

Also: I remember there was a nice dos command that I could enter into the "run:..." line in XP, that showed me all the settings. It was NOT ipconfig, but more something like wincfg or so. Anybody know what I am talking about?

"Volker" hath wroth:

IPCONFIG /ALL

WINIPCFG is for Windoze 95/98/ME. WNTIPCFG is for Windoze 2K and XP. For W2K, download from: |

You might wanna also grab NETDIAG for W2K. It's included with XP. When run from the command line, it shows quite a few network configuration problems. |

Deprecated.

An ipconfig/all on an Internet-working machine will give you the DNS server addresses.

Long

Duane :)

William P.N. Smith hath wroth:

For XP, it's not in the "resource kit". It's in the "support tools". The names have been changed to confuse the innocent.

Find the original XP cdrom and dive into: E:\\SUPPORT\\TOOLS\\ directory. Run SETUP.EXE program. Tell it to install everything.

To run: Start -> Run -> CMD netdiag /v | more Lots and lots and lots and lots of info mixed with gibberish.

In the case of Windoze 2000, the installers dump everything into: C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\RESOURCE KIT\\ There are some HTML files with usage documentation in this directory. No clue where MS dumps it for XP.

You told me that once before. I just couldn't remember it. I got enough to do just remembering to get out of the bed in the morning.

Thanks

Duane :)

But maybe only if you've installed the resource kit?

No, you were misled.

You must turn off the DHCP _server_ but you can still get your IP via DHCP (and it will get it from the other router). But the second router must connect from a LAN port, not the WAN or INTERNET port, to the first router.

Why not do the following?

__[wan]modem/router[lan]__[lan]router[lan]__[lan]router

Using all lan connections, that sounds correct. Are you sure that's a lan-to-wan connection between the first and second routers? The addressing you mentioned should be incompatible with such a topology.

A static IP to do what? This thread is about connecting two routers together. So what is your intent with this Static IP?

Duane :)

The Extened Stay America Inn I am at while on the road has wireless and I won't even use that. :)

Duane :)

Here is one setup I have assembled with 3 routers.

__[wan]modem/router[lan]__[wan]router[lan]__[lan]router

(Speedstream 5861)_______SMCwirelessrouter____100ftCAT5___SMCwirelessrouter IIRC The 2 SMC routers both have their DHCP disabled, but the 1st SMC got it's LAN address changed to be included into the 5861's LAN's IP range and the second just has a static WAN IP address that is also in the 5861's LAN's IP range. I probably made this too complicated but it works, I can move files between computers and share a printer on 1 computer!!! ;-)

I needed/wanted to set up the two wireless routers to have 2 wired & 1 wireless accesses to the network. The first SMC router has a very limited transmitting range.

later, dave (One out of many daves)

No you are correct Dom, it is a lan to lan connection between the first and second router and also between the second and third router. I just checked it today. later, dave (One out of many daves)

Speedstream-5861[lan]__[wan]SMCwirelessrouter[lan]__[lan]SMCwirelessrouter