Connect Two Home networks

[TrixAreForKids]

My roommate and I each have our own network off our cable connection that offers multiple IPs. We have our reasons for doing this, and so far it works great, except if we ever want to exchange a file we have to use an external harddrive.

Is there a way to connect our two Linksys WRT54GS routers so the computers behind them can communicate across the two routers but when seeking the internet they have their own IP address?

Internet
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|Router 1 (unique public IP)>computers can communicate with Router 2
Router 2 (unique public IP) >computers can communicate with Router 1



I was thinking of making the Routers have different IPs such as 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.2.1 but on the same subnet 255.255.255.0
But that doesn't make sense.

Confused and I can't find a simple article to explain this, as every article I find is people wanting to bridge wireless networks or the article starts talking about WINS.

 

[nweaver]

you would have to turn DHCP on both of these for this to function, and do static IP's on the workstations. You would setup a 192.168.0.X network, with router 1 being .1 and 2 being .2

Assign an IP in the range to each box, and setup the gateways differently for each machine.

 

[TrixAreForKids]

Originally posted by: nweaver
you would have to turn DHCP on both of these for this to function, and do static IP's on the workstations. You would setup a 192.168.0.X network, with router 1 being .1 and 2 being .2

Assign an IP in the range to each box, and setup the gateways differently for each machine.

You mean turn DHCO off I assume.

Router A 192.168.0.1 subnet 255.255.255.0
Computer 192.168.0.10 subnet 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.1

Router B 192.168.0.2 subnet 255.255.255.0
Computer 192.168.0.20 subnet 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.2

Do I need a crossover cable between Router A and B, or will a normal ethernet work fine?

 

[JackMDS]

This assumes that at least one of the computers has WinXP Pro.

Put a second NIC in one computer that is runing WinXP Port connect the NIC to an open port on the Linksys that is connected to the other Guy's Network.

Use WinXP to Bridge the two networks.

This page uses a USB example, it the same for Ethernet as well, http://www.wown.info/articles_tutorials/wxpbrdge.html]

:sun:

Note: Since the Linksys as is do not do IP reservation you might need to configure the computers with static IP.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: TrixAreForKids
Do I need a crossover cable between Router A and B, or will a normal ethernet work fine?

Straight-thru is fine.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: John

Originally posted by: TrixAreForKids
Do I need a crossover cable between Router A and B, or will a normal ethernet work fine?

Straight-thru is fine.

It will work, because the WRT's support autoMDX. Normally, switch to switch is a crossover

 

[TrixAreForKids]

Thank you. I assume Switch to WRT can be either? I know straight thru seems fine but my VoIP only works when pluged straight into the WRT, not through the switch.