Can you rroute oune router through another router?

[Johnbear007]

Is it possible to have a wired router, and connect a wireless routers WAN port to one of the wired routers ports? So that I can share using two routers

 

[hjo3]

Should be. The arrangement I have here is router > switch > router, and the 2nd router still gets internet access through the first without any extra setup...

 

[JackMDS]

Concerning Entry Level Routers.

This question comes up every few weeks.

I have few Routers (various brands) and never succeed to set two Routers in serial via the WAN.

Few people claim that it can be done. However each time I asked them for detail descriptions ((like what make and model, and what settings), they ?suddenly disappeared? and never provided an answer.

So, I am still hopping.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Yeah, you'll basically have 2 levels of nat, your wireless stuff will all be hidden from your wired network behind the one IP of the access point. So directly accessing any given wireless machine from a wired machine will be cumbersome, but as far as internet access and stuff, it should be fine.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Yeah, you'll basically have 2 levels of nat, your wireless stuff will all be hidden from your wired network behind the one IP of the access point. So directly accessing any given wireless machine from a wired machine will be cumbersome, but as far as internet access and stuff, it should be fine.

What is the make and model of both Routers.

First Router WAN IP (dynamic static or what)?
First Router LAN IP band?

Second Router WANS setting (manual , through first Router?s DHCP, or What)?
What is the specific WAN IP pf the second Router?

Second Router LAN IP band?

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: Johnbear007
Is it possible to have a wired router, and connect a wireless routers WAN port to one of the wired routers ports? So that I can share using two routers

If you just want to use the Wireless Router as an Access Point, this will work.

Link: How do I use a Wireless Cable/DSL Router as a Switch with an Access Point?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: JackMDS

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Yeah, you'll basically have 2 levels of nat, your wireless stuff will all be hidden from your wired network behind the one IP of the access point. So directly accessing any given wireless machine from a wired machine will be cumbersome, but as far as internet access and stuff, it should be fine.

What is the make and model of both Routers.

First Router WAN IP (dynamic static or what)?
First Router LAN IP band?

Second Router WANS setting (manual , through first Router?s DHCP, or What)?
What is the specific WAN IP pf the second Router?

Second Router LAN IP band?

I am not speaking from experience, it just seemed obvious to me that it should work like that. The outside-most router would run dhcp, the inside router would lease dhcp from it, and serve dhcp to all of the machines behind it. Makes sense to me, but I've never done it.

 

[Reel]

My setup simplified is this:

Internet -- Router 1 -- Router 2 -- some computers

There are a few switches hooked up here + there too. The router 1 we are using is a WebRamp SOHO. I am not sure of the other one because it belongs to a roommate. I believe it is a LinkSys though.

JackMDS, if you have any further questions about my setup, I will try not to disappear.

 

[JackMDS]

My questions are above!

 

[Reel]

Originally posted by: JackMDS

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Yeah, you'll basically have 2 levels of nat, your wireless stuff will all be hidden from your wired network behind the one IP of the access point. So directly accessing any given wireless machine from a wired machine will be cumbersome, but as far as internet access and stuff, it should be fine.

What is the make and model of both Routers.

First Router WAN IP (dynamic static or what)?
First Router LAN IP band?

Second Router WANS setting (manual , through first Router?s DHCP, or What)?
What is the specific WAN IP pf the second Router?

Second Router LAN IP band?

Top Router (WebRamp SOHO):
WAN IP: DHCP Assigned
LAN IP: 192.168.0.1
Should be able to assign addresses in the range from 192.168.0.2 - .254. Only does about 6 computers regularly though. I have my desktop and my linux staticly assigned since I forward ports.

Inside Router (LinkSys BEFSR41):
WAN IP: DHCP Assigned (192.168.0.7)
LAN IP: 192.168.1.100
Assigns 192.168.1.101 - .254 I believe. It is most likely the default settings.

To further describe my configuration, we have a wall ethernet jack that assigns only 1 IP. It comes in through one room and goes into the Top Router. From there, 1 cable runs to a computer in that room, 1 cable runs to my room where it goes into a switch and then 3 computers, 1 cable goes to a roommate's room where it goes into a hub and connects to 2 computers, the fourth cable goes to the inside router. The inside router has 2 connections, a laptop in the room where it is located and a cable going to the fourth room for one computer. A picture would be tough to draw using ASCII. If you want, I could make a quick one in Visio because words are far from ideal in describing this.

Also, I have at times used a netgear router instead of the Linksys without difficulty as well as switching the order of the netgear and the webramp so the webramp was inside.

 

[JackMDS]

Really Cool, ReelC00L.

Thanks for the nice straight informative answer.

If memory does not fail me I think that my problem was concerning Routers that would not take private LAN address (192.168.xxx.xxx) on the WAN side (none of them is the same as the three that you mentioned). I will check into it during the working week.