Coupling routers to achieve same subnet

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bfritton
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Coupling routers to achieve same subnet

Hey all,

Does anyone know of any problems coupling a Linksys WRT54GL with the WGR614L?

I turned off DHCP on the Netgear router (running latest DD-WRT) and set my gateway to the parenting Linksys. I also set the DNS correctly. The DHCP is enabled on the Linksys to that it can hand out IPs.

Sometimes I am unable to see network shares on computers hooked up to the Netgear from a computer hooked up to the Linksys even though they should be on the same subnet now.

 Perhaps just a sporatic problem or me not waiting long enough for discovery?

wickedshamrock
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I am trying to do almost the

I am trying to do almost the exact same thing and am having the same problem. Any ideas?

John Lauro
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You should have the two

You should have the two devices connected via the station port to station port, and have nothing connected to the uplink/internet port of the second device. If you do want to daisy chain the second device using it's uplink port, then you will need to make sure they are on *different* subnets, otherwise expect NAT to the confused... Put one on 10, and one on 192.168 for exacmple.

bfritton
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Thanks for the info John,

Thanks for the info John,
I actually did all that with all the correct settings. After messing around a bit I found out that I must have just been too impatient with the router starting up and restarting. Once I left the router alone for a little while and made the changes after a restart then waited more than one minute then the configuration changes worked perfectly.

clueless t
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So... does this mean that you

So... does this mean that you could configure any wireless router to talk to another one and act like the same network? I'm looking to connect a blu ray player to my current wireless network so I can stream netflix and maybe hulu to my tv, and I don't want to run 50 feet of cable through my house.

As I understand it I'd go into the firmware of the new router and tell it not to run DNS, and change it's address from 192.168.0.1 to like 192.168.10.1 and it should just connect to my existing wireless?

If I have a laptop in the house... will it get confused which router to associate with?

John Lauro
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clueless t said:

clueless t said:
So... does this mean that you could configure any wireless router to talk to another one and act like the same network? I'm looking to connect a blu ray player to my current wireless network so I can stream netflix and maybe hulu to my tv, and I don't want to run 50 feet of cable through my house.
As I understand it I'd go into the firmware of the new router and tell it not to run DNS, and change it's address from 192.168.0.1 to like 192.168.10.1 and it should just connect to my existing wireless?
If I have a laptop in the house... will it get confused which router to associate with?

You still have to run cable somewhere, or are you wanting to take wireless signal from your working router and turn it back into a wired connection for your blu ray player?

That can be done, but is not supported by all wireless access points.  Basically, you have to tell the second to not be an access point, but instead to connect to your other access point.   I am not sure what firmwares support that.

clueless t
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John Lauro said: You still

John Lauro said: You still have to run cable somewhere, or are you wanting to take wireless signal from your working router and turn it back into a wired connection for your blu ray player?
That can be done, but is not supported by all wireless access points.  Basically, you have to tell the second to not be an access point, but instead to connect to your other access point.   I am not sure what firmwares support that.

 

That's exactly what I want. I want to use it kind of like a print server to connect the video appliance to the rest of my network. Any idea which routers might be able to do that? It seems like a common enough application that somebody must have tried to do it before...

John Lauro
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From what I can tell, the DD

From what I can tell, the DD-WRT firmware should support that, by configuring one as a client instead of AP mode.

leraptor06
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I use a lynksys wrt54g

I use a lynksys wrt54g running dd wrt connected with a old pc. There is a bridge using the wds function with my netgear router.You must set the AP mode to use wds.With the mac adress filter i enabled the netgear on the linksys, and on the netgear i did the same thing with the mac adress of my laptops+linksys.
The dhcp function is only enabled on my netgear and of course they use the same ssid.
It's great! with a laptop connected with the netgear i can see a movie stored on my synology ds207 connected on the linsys router.