A bad idea? Daisy-chaining modem and router with the same ip numbers

2013-01-26 Thread Steve G.
I have a practical situation that might use some advice. I am not near the equipment, so I can't manually change IP addresses on the machines, and the server does not have a GUI, so my wife can't fix it either. The question: if I take a modem that runs the LAN as 192.168.1.1, and plug into one

Re: A bad idea? Daisy-chaining modem and router with the same ip numbers

2013-01-26 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Steve G. wrote: if I take a modem that runs the LAN as 192.168.1.1, and plug into one of its ports a wireless router ALSO running as 192.168.1.1, would I bring down the Internet or cause other types of horrible harm? The Internet at large wouldn't be affected, but you'd