Need help adding WRT54G wireless to wired router BEFSR41

[davidos]

At work I want to plug in a wireless router to one of the ports on our Wired router but am not having any luck getting it to work... the Wired router is 192.168.1.1..... what do i need to set the wireless router to?

I don't want to replace the wired router with the wireless one... ijust want to add it on.
Thanks!

 

[jlazzaro]

assuming you have permission to do so: http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

 

[StopSign]

oops

 

[StopSign]

What's the DHCP range for the wired router? I'm guessing it's something like 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.199. Well, whatever it is, find out.

On your wireless Linksys (I have a WRT54GL connected to a D-Link DI-604)....

- Connect only your computer to the Linksys and nothing else
- Disable firewall
- Disable DHCP
- Set connection type to Automatic if that's available (where you choose stuff like Static, Dynamic, PPPoE, etc.)
- LASTLY, set the Linksys's IP to something within the range of your other router's DCHP range
- Connect other router into one of the LAN ports on the Linksys (this means nothing is in the WAN port)
- Connect computer to another LAN port on the Linksys
- Reboot Linksys

 

[jlazzaro]

Originally posted by: StopSign
- LASTLY, set the Linksys's IP to something OUTSIDE the range of your other router's DCHP range

corrected.

 

[StopSign]

No, you have to put it INSIDE the range.

 

[jlazzaro]

Originally posted by: StopSign
No, you have to put it INSIDE the range.

Wrong...

a DHCP range is a pool of addresses that is dynamically assigned to hosts. If you set the static address of the Linksys inside the DCHP range, you will have an [eventual] address conflict with a client.

You need to set the Linksys OUTSIDE the DHCP range but INSIDE the subnets addressing range.

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