Share Internet over two distinct segments

[phillyTIM]

Hey guys - I know there are easier ways for a home user to share Internet with a router & AP on a single segment. But for the sake of doing it, I want to have one segment secured with WPA and the other segment with WEP and different IP range.

Here's what I got now:

DSL---->Router(Network A[192.168.1.x],DHCP,WPA)----AP([192.168.1.#],WEP,no-DHCP)

AND HERE'S WHAT I WANT:

DSL---->Router(Network A[192.168.1.x],DHCP,WPA) - main internal network
?---->Router(Network B[192.168.2.x],DHCP,WEP) - for visitors and Nintendo DS

Currently, the ROUTER is a LINKSYS WRT54GS and the AP/ROUTER is a DLINK DWL-730AP


How can I get this idea setup, and have INTERNET(DSL) traffic be available through both Network A and B?

Will I, or can I, get to administer Router B while having a Router A address?

And I'm a little confused about the Default gateway addresses for either network B or the clients.

Thanks much, for your advice!

 

[jlazzaro]

http://www.ezlan.net/shield.html

 

[nweaver]

Smoothwall or another *nix based firewall can do this.

 

[Tsaico]

Why do two routers? I really don't get why people want to segment their home network in this manner. If you have a visitor to your home network, I guarantee you there is a good chance you will want to share files with this person. The false sense of extra security isn't worth the extra headaches. in this application. If you gave them your password to share your internet, then you most likely trust them enough to let them into your house. but not enough to want to keep them out of everything else?

But if you insist on having two seperate networks,

plug wall to modem, modem to router 1. setup your misc passwords and SID and it's channel. Then take start to configure your 2nd router to make sure that you are not on the same ip pool, so example, router 1 issues 192.168.1.x, then setup your 2nd router to assign 192.168.2.x instead. Set your 2nd router take a DHCP from WAN side and plug it's WAN port to any of the regular ports in your router 1. Complete whatever extra security/password/whatever to the 2nd router.

Next you will want to go to portforwarding.com to find out specifics on your particular routers so that your nintendo DS goes out the 2nd router to the 1st and out to internet and vice versa. So on router 1 you will forward the requesting ports to the IP that was assigned to your 2nd router and forward the ports on the 2nd router to the IP that was assigned to the DS. In anything other than NAT (internet usage) you will have to do this.

Good luck...