Wireless netgear router connect to a wired router - Nightmare

mattgaunt · 15 Sep 2008 at 19:25

Hey everyone

Im struggling with this one, even though I managed to get it working a while a go.

Basically at Uni we have a wireless router for everyone in the house to connect to, I use linux for coursework and need a wired connection - I have a cable running from the wireless router to my room and would like to use my wired router so I can connect my desktop and laptop to the internet.

Wireless router is a Netgear WG614 router and my wired router is a RP614.

What some how got set up last year was one router had an IP address as normal on a netgear router of 192.168.1.1 and the other had 10.0.0.1, but at the moment I cant seem to get it to do the same thing again.

I cant seem to connect any computers connect to the wired router to connect to the internet.

Any ideas or help would be great

hybrid · 15 Sep 2008 at 19:37

Can't you put the wired router on the same subnet mask and IP range as the wireless? Have you disabled DHCP on the 2nd router (the wired)?

mattgaunt · 15 Sep 2008 at 19:44

I tried disabling the DCHP and setting the ip address of the wired router to outside the range of the wirless router

so say wireless has IP range 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.51 I set the second router to 192.168.1.60 - 192.168.1.70 but had no luck and I tried it with the same and with different subnet masks but no luck either way :-(

csmager · 15 Sep 2008 at 20:37

The main cause of all this is that you don't need a second router. You either want a switch, or to just run two cables to the first router.

You can make the wired router act as a switch by basically not using any of it's functionality. Just don't connect anything to its WAN port and disable DHCP - anything connected should pick up an IP from the first router.

mattgaunt · 16 Sep 2008 at 10:21

Cheers csmager got it sorted as you mentioned.

I understand that I need a switch but I already had the second router from a previous purpose.

Thanks for your help guys

bledd · 16 Sep 2008 at 11:32

yup,

connecting up JUST to the 2nd router, changing the ip address to .254 and disabling dhcp, then connecting them all up (not to the WAN port)