On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Mike Sloane wrote:
I have an office with an 8-port Ethernet router on a broadband cable
connection. I have been requested the ability to provide some wireless
capability temporarily (for outside auditors). I have a spare 4-port
wired/wireless Linksys broadband router, and I was wondering if I could
"daisy-chain" the latter to the former by using a cross-over cable between
one of the Ethernet ports on each unit. I know that I can daisy chain
Ethernet hubs this way, but have not ever tried to do it with wireless
(802.11a/b/g/n) connections.
My other thought is to plug the wired/wireless into the broadband connection
and then patch the 8-port hub into that.
Before I start chasing "the impossible dream", I was wondering if anyone had
tried it or had any thoughts.
It can be done (I'm doing something similar at home), with a few warnings
about how to set things up. First, make sure the cable between them goes
from one of the LAN ports (not the WAN port) on one router to one of the
LAN ports on the other router. Next, make sure only one of the routers is
set up to serve DHCP addresses. Finally, make sure the secondary router
(the one not connected via its WAN port to the internet) is set up to use
a different address for it's LAN connection (most routers seem to default
to 192.168.1.1 for this). After that, you should be good.
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Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [email protected]
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