Do I need a separate router?

[gryffinwings]

I'm trying to figure out if I need a separate router but I'm not exactly sure.

I have AT&T Uverse and 5268AC to connect wirelessly or wired.

Now the question is, do I need a separate router to set up a local network for the purpose of a network attached storage? Would my primary computer need a second NIC apart from the onboard NIC that's connected directly to the Internet DSL model?

 

[gryffinwings]

Nevermind, I didn't need a separate router, I just needed to figure out how to find the IP address which I figured out using Advanced IP Scanner, very useful tool. This thread can be closed, I do not need it. It appears the modem also has routing capability.

 

[JackMDS]

Any Consumer ""Modem"" that has Wireless must be a Router too!

 

[mv2devnull]

Any Consumer ""Modem"" that has Wireless must be a Router too!

Does it? The ISP could in theory hand out "enough" IP's per client.

In practise, it would be shocking to find a modem-AP combo sans routing.


@gryffinwings:
If you had an additional router, then you would disable AP and routing in the modem and then connect the WAN-port of router to a LAN-port of the modem. All your devices would connect to LAN-ports of the router (or WiFI, if the router has AP).

 

[gryffinwings]

I ended up getting the router to work with my ISP Modem/Wireless Router. What I ended up doing was connecting my Linksys router to the ISP router via ethernet and set it to bridge mode and that worked pretty effectively. So I didn't use it for what I was thinking about using it for, but I was able to set up the Raspberry Pi NAS on the ISP Modem/Wireless Router.