Re: piggybacking a wireless router on a another router, and DHCP

[Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/5/06, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dan wrote:
> > I picked up a Linksys DI-524 wireless router to take advantage of the
> > wireless connection.
>
> Are you sure that's a linksys device?  Sounds like D-Link.


<sigh> Right you are.  Linksys, D-link, Dinky-Link, sheesh.

> However, in the process of setting all this up, the install wizard,
> > not surprisingly, did not have an option for "piggybacking" it to
> > another router.
>
> Well, I wouldn't bother using their wizard.
>
> I did this with a Linksys WRT54GC just a few days ago ... I a cable from
> my main router (Linksys WRT54G) into one of the LAN ports on WRT54GC (it
> automatically became an uplink channel).  Then I gave the WRT54GC a
> static IP, and disabled the built in dhcp server.


Did you mean to say that you hooked it up to the "WAN" port on the new
WRT54GC?  My connection was a LAN port from the old (main) router to the WAN
port on the new router.

Basically, the WRT54GC became another switch on the network, with a
> wireless AP built in.
>
> The key is to make sure the wireless AP's IP has a different IP than the
> router, but is in the same subnet.


The old (main) router's address is 192.168.8.1 and the new router's is
192.168.0.1, so I guess I avoid address conflicts that way.

But what was the deal with the D-Link tech instructing me to disable DHCP?

- Dan