Router chain

[DonIsHere]

Has anyone tried plugging a router into a port of another router? Particularly two routers of different brands?

thanks
don

 

[ScottMac]

It should be a non-issue, if you think about it,that's exactly the way most companies operate. You have the router at the ISP connecting to a router onsite, that may connect to another location, that bught backhaul a link to another location.

As long as each segment is independently addressed (different nets/subnets) it shouldn't be an operational issue. FUNCTIONALLY, there are some architectural concerns regarding traffic loads, latencies, capacities etc....

FWIW

Scott

 

[MJT2k]

Wouldn't the routers have to be the same brand like when you get a T1 line. The router is the same on both ends of the connection. What kind of router are you talking about? Those DSL cable routers or something like a Cisco router.

 

[Garion]

Keep in mind that most home "routers" have a built-in switch and do the routing intelligence behind the scenes. When you're connecting two of them together, you're going switch-to-switch, not really router-to-router. That should work just fine, assuming you're using a crossover cable.

- G

 

[CTR]

No, the routers do not have to be the same brand. There are some issues about vendor-proprietary technologies, however. For instance: Cisco routers can use their proprietary HDLC encapsulation on a point-to-point , but you would need to use the more generic PPP encapsulation when connecting a T1 between a Cisco router and a router from another vendor.

 

[spidey07]

i love it, they're called "routers" it doesn't route anything.