How to hook up 2 routers together

[letsgetsilly]

Hey all,

I've got a LAN party coming up on tuesday. Right now I have a netgear wireless wgr614v4 hooked up to the cable internet. In my desk drawer, i've got a linksys router (don't know model, old standard blue and black one) that I want to hook up to the netgear so we can have enough slots for everyone.

We'll have about 9 computers at my place starting monday, so i'd like to make sure everything works and not have to turn everyone away.

Basically, I just need to know what to do to connect these. My guess was to just send a cable from the Netgear into the uplink on the Linksys.

Any suggestions or help would be GREATLY appreciated (and game suggestions!)

Thanks,
Adam

 

[amdskip]

Hook up the linksys to a computer and turn off dhcp so effectively you turn the router into a switch and allow the netgear to do the routing. Hook up the cable and you should be good to go. You might need to use a crossover cable but I doubt it.

 

[letsgetsilly]

Alright cool, thanks for your help

 

[hopejr]

just use a normal patch cable between the WAN port of the seccond router and a normal port on the first one (plus turning of DHCP and NAT on the second one).

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: hopejr
just use a normal patch cable between the WAN port of the seccond router and a normal port on the first one (plus turning of DHCP and NAT on the second one).

LOL, doing so you would have Two LANs Party.:shocked:

Link to: Using a Wireless Cable/DSL Router as a Switch with an Access Point (Ignore the Wireless part).

:sun:

 

[hopejr]

I've done the method I just mentioned and it works fine. All machines are dished out IP addresses from the first router, so it's still one network.

 

[Kelemvor]

It depends on the make. Some routers when used as Switches require you to NOT use the WAN/Uplink port while other require you DO use that port. Have to check themanual for that specific model (or others from the same brand) to find out it's specifics.