Joining 2 Routers

Tinochelli · 01-23-2005, 05:24 PM

Hi

i have a wired D-Link 4 port router, i also got a 4 port Wireless router, i need to connect the routers so that the wireless devices it connects can get internet from the wired router.

is it a straight through cable or a X-over,

The wireless router has no modem hence why i am not using it as the source

the D-Link ports are all uplink,

Thanks in advance for any advice

Caeda · 01-23-2005, 06:58 PM

Um... right...

Take ethernet cable. Plug one end into D-Link router, and other port into the in of the wireless.

Was it that hard to figure out?

toastermaker · 01-23-2005, 08:31 PM

Just in case you have some bizzar strange non standard unheard of setup, this might help a little.

http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

Tinochelli · 01-24-2005, 01:41 PM

Caeda: if u read the text u would have seen that i was asking if it was a X-Over or a straight thought cable, but obviously u didnt quite catch that bit

Blinker_Fluid · 01-24-2005, 01:51 PM

straight through.
There was some discussion about something similar a few weeks ago:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=277807

I wouldn't do 2 routers in a home environment... (use a switch if you want more ports)

williamwbishop · 01-24-2005, 09:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Blinker_Fluid
straight through.
There was some discussion about something similar a few weeks ago:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=277807

I wouldn't do 2 routers in a home environment... (use a switch if you want more ports)

Unless you have a home lab, or if you're really crazy, a home enterprise setup. You know you're sick when you have a SAN, and a cisco routed network in your bedroom. BTW, anyone have any flash memory for a 2501 router?

microsoft/linux · 01-27-2005, 07:03 PM

could I set up a router configuration like this *=router

*
/ \
/ \
* *
so that I can have acces in three rooms? the *'s(routers) being wireless?

williamwbishop · 01-28-2005, 12:20 AM

Don't see why not. Right now I have my D-link wireless connected to my cisco lab, a 2501, 2502, 2504...a catalyst 1924 switch, and a bay networks backbone switch. Latency is a bitch, but they're routers, you configure them, they'll do what you tell them to.

This is my config:

broadband--catalyst--dlink(e)--2501(e)--2502(s)--2504(s)

The backbone switch and computers branch off the catalyst(and on weekends we'll share another catalyst for trunking and the like when I take the gear in to work for study time).