ok so i was trying to have two seperate networks that cant see each other for security reasons.
we hooked up two routers togther, it worked at first but then it goes out and we have to repeatedly reset the second router.

im sure this has something to do with how routers assign ip addresses but can anyone explain how i can make it work, or why it wont?

thanks.

6/17/2007 11:48:36 AM

set up one router for the gateway and routing of one network.. setup the other router for router-only and point the gateway address to the address of the gateway router.. make sure the 2nd router uses a different subnet than the first.

router 1:
DHCP for address 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.126
subnet mask 255.255.255.128
gateway/router ip is 192.168.1.1

router 2:
DHCP for address 192.168.1.129-192.168.1.254
subnet mask 255.255.255.128
set the gateway to 192.168.1.1 so that all traffic not on the LAN network (129-254) will push to the other router.

thats one way of doing it.. you can always use a 255.255.255.0 subnet mask and just do a 192.168.1.x network and 192.168.2.x network


[Edited on June 17, 2007 at 12:29 PM. Reason : ]

6/17/2007 12:27:44 PM

so you're saying that i should set them up to assign different ip addresses
but will the two networks be able to see each other, cause i dont want pc's from the second router
to see the pc's connected to the first router.

[Edited on June 17, 2007 at 12:38 PM. Reason : .]

6/17/2007 12:37:45 PM

with a /25 mask, they won't be able to see each other unless routing is enabled (usually home "routers" don't actually do any routing, just NAT, or more specifically, PAT)

6/17/2007 12:47:50 PM