Networking 101.

[de8212]

I connected my wireless router to my wired router (w/cat5). I can connect to the network with the laptop as far as windows is concerned but I can't load a page. I can ping the wireless router 192.168.x.x from the laptop. I can even open the configuration.


No security is set up at this time.


I know, it's something simple but I am stumped.

Alot more questions to follow.

 

[de8212]

Does DHCP need to be disabled on the wireless router???

I disabled it and it works.

 

[JackMDS]

Using a Wireless Router as a switch with an Access Point - http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html
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[RadiclDreamer]

You need to turn off the router features of the second device. Make it basically a switch/AP

 

[de8212]

You need to turn off the router features of the second device. Make it basically a switch/AP

Thanks. I'm still tweaking it a bit. I've helped set up something similar at work a long time ago and I seem to remember it giving an option to be an AP. I can't find that within this router although I may have overlooked it.

Actually under Advaced Routing I see it is defaulted to gateway. Other choice is router. Not sure if I should have changed it???????

Everything seems to be working now since I disabled DHCP. I am setting up security on it now.

 

[sonoma1993]

when you connected the wireless router to your other router, the ethernet cable that connected to the wireless router. Did you connect it to it wan port or one of the switch ports?

 

[de8212]

when you connected the wireless router to your other router, the ethernet cable that connected to the wireless router. Did you connect it to it wan port or one of the switch ports?

switch.


Like I said, it wasn't working as far as pulling up web pages but as soon as I disabled DHCP then everything was good. I thought I remembered reading that somewhere but wasn't sure.
Someone helped me set this up ~6 yrs ago and they did 80% of the settings. I just flashed both routers and set them up in different places and changed some security settings. All is good now but I am sure I will have more questions.

 

[her209]

switch.

Like I said, it wasn't working as far as pulling up web pages but as soon as I disabled DHCP then everything was good. I thought I remembered reading that somewhere but wasn't sure.
Someone helped me set this up ~6 yrs ago and they did 80% of the settings. I just flashed both routers and set them up in different places and changed some security settings. All is good now but I am sure I will have more questions.

Sounds like you need to use a crossover cable to connect switch to switch.

 

[de8212]

Sounds like you need to use a crossover cable to connect switch to switch.

Why?

I've already stated everything works fine now.

 

[NesuD]

Actually you could have just double NATd' them. All you needed to do was run a cable from one of the LAN ports on the first router to the WAN port on the Wireless router and it would have worked. Likely with no changes in the routers at all.

 

[aE0n]

Sounds like the wireless router was giving out an invalid DNS address through DHCP, probably to iteself. When you turned the DHCP off on the wireless, you get DHCP from the wired router containing a valid DNS address.