Obviously you can setup Linksys B as a subnetwork. But in that case you would find that the two machines on the subnetwork were not viewable from the rest of your network. Possibly you could change the netmask on your top network, but now you're into the kind of network juggling that's worth spending 30 bucks on a hub for :)
The UPLINK one is odd. Not sure why a router would have both a WAN and an UPLINK unless I'm just being especially brainless this morning. It's possible that the UPLINK works like a hub and you happen to have a router that can be used in a hub/switch-like state. Other random ideas would be to plug a crossover cable into the wall and into one of the 4 normal sockets. Then the other two into the normal sockets too. ie) empty WAN and empty UPLINK. Hopefully someone else has a better network grounding than I do; my theory gets a little stretched when I have to be inventive about what's happening inside a particular router/hub. If none of the various lego combinations work, and if you've not got a crossover cable to hand, and if there's nothing on the software's web interface that looks applicable; then I'd just go buy a switch. Hen On 1/18/06, Dan Crutcher <dcrutcher at loumag.com> wrote: > I have two computers in a room that has only one Ethernet connection > to my LAN. I want both computers to be connected to the LAN. I also > happen to have have an unused Linksys cable/DSL router, which I'll > call Linksys B. > > If I plug in the Linksys B router, run the Ethernet cable to one of > its ports and run Ethernet cables from two other of the Linksys B > ports to the two computers in the room, will they be able to access > the network? > > Does it matter which Linksys B ports I use for either the cable from > the network to the router, or for the two cables to the two > computers? The Linksys has 6 ports: one labeled "WAN," one labeled > "UPLINK" and four unlabeled ports. > > Does it matter that the LAN that is being connected to is currently > being provided NAT services by an identical Linksys router, which > I'll call Linksys A. > > Do I have to access the Linksys' web interface -- on either A or B -- > to change any configuration settings? (Such as turning off NAT on > Linksys B?) > > Essentially, I want Linksys B to serve as a "dumb" router on the > network to give me more Ethernet access points in that one room. > > Thanks. > > Dan > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
