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Offline kenmo

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Re: Problems using 2 routers. Huh??
« on: June 02, 2003, 08:09:54 AM »
I'm not familiar with your particular router, but if you can, disable DHCP on the second one &  don't use the WAN port; set the router's LAN IP address to something outside your LAN's address space. The idea here is to disable the router facility and just use the switch (hub) portion, and not have the router interfere with your network operation. you only need one router in the mix, and one DHCP server.

To connect the two routers together, you'll need to use the uplink port on one of them, unless they're autosensing (none are that I've seen).  Failing that, you'd need a crossover cable,  the ethernet equivalent of a nullmodem cable :-)   Hope this helps...
 

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Re: Problems using 2 routers. Huh??
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2003, 08:15:03 AM »
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Also, the computers on THAT router should be configured to use the inside IP of THAT router as their default gateway, while the rest of your computers should be using the inside IP of the main router as their default gateway.


Uh,  no...   you've just told him to disable all router functions. Gateway is one of those...  so all computers on that LAN must use the first (not disabled) router as the gateway.