At my current townhouse I got three roommates with computers and three video game connections (one for my 360 and two for my roommates 360+PS3) for online play.

Our network equipment consists of
one Wireless Linksys (only 3 of the 4 wired Ethernet ports work) and a D-Link (with 4 ports for Ethernet)
Since my desktop is the only system with Wireless; to accommodate everyone we need 5 physical ports to get everything online.

My solution was to set up a two stage LAN with the following config

[Cable Modem]<===> (Wireless Linksys Router)<===> (D-Link)

I set up the Wireless Linksys to be the interface with the cable modem. I then connected one of the three good ports on the Linksys to the D-Link's WANs port. Using my good ole CCNA knowledge I thought i configured everything good; with the D-Link sending all its host packets from its network to the Linksys as the gateway.

The problem though that i can't figure out is that for some reason my computer at random times will latch onto a 192.168.0.XXX from the D-Link. Somehow the D-Link is overriding the IP address assigned to it by the Linksys and I can not figure out how to stop this from happening.

5/6/2009 7:18:05 PM

wts double nat

don't use the uplink port on the dlink. disable dhcp on it or buy a switch

[Edited on May 6, 2009 at 7:25 PM. Reason : .]

oh, you're forced to use uplink because of port shortage. buy a switch or flash the linksys with tomato/dd-wrt allowing more flexible configurations.

What about statically assigning the d-link with an unused ip on the Linksys network and having it give out ranges the linksys is not set to. I'm sure there's like correct subnetting and shit to do as well that having the expired CCNA should allow you to remember.

[Cable Modem]<===> (192.168.1.1 Linksys)<===> (192.168.1.100 D-Link)
..............................(192.168.1.10 - 50 ) <===> (192.168.1.101 - 120)


Seriously, split the cost of a switch or only use three ethernet ports on the dlink.

[Edited on May 6, 2009 at 7:37 PM. Reason : .]

5/6/2009 7:24:20 PM

Get a switch.

5/7/2009 12:14:36 PM

yea, just get a cheapo switch..don't make the shit complicated

5/7/2009 12:17:54 PM

Just turn off DHCP on the D-Link and plug the Linksys into one of the LAN ports on the D-Link. Then it is a switch basically and should not be handing out any IPs. If I counted correctly, that should give you the exact number of ports that you needed anyway.

5/7/2009 1:23:00 PM

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"Just turn off DHCP on the D-Link and plug the Linksys into one of the LAN ports on the D-Link. Then it is a switch basically and should not be handing out any IPs. If I counted correctly, that should give you the exact number of ports that you needed anyway."

5/7/2009 1:30:09 PM

I was under the assumption 3 ports on the DLink was not enough to accommodate all devices, did I miscount? If you flashed the linksys and were on point with your port forwarding couldn't you set up a Dlink network and a Linksys network and then have a static route linking the two?

5/7/2009 1:44:11 PM

there are 7 working ports total--5 are needed to accommodate everyone. 2 will be used to connect the two devices together. it'll work...just turn dhcp off on one of them and they should uplink fine with a regular cable if theyre new enough to support auto whatever it's called

5/7/2009 2:25:00 PM

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"If you flashed the linksys and were on point with your port forwarding couldn't you set up a Dlink network and a Linksys network and then have a static route linking the two?"

why would you want to have two separate subnets though? there is absolutely no need.

just turn DHCP off on the d-link router, connect a regular ethernet cable between the two (two of the lan ports, don't involve the wan port on the d-link router at all), and there you go.

or, even more simple (and as suggested before), go get a $30 switch from staples.

5/7/2009 2:32:28 PM

dude

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"wts double nat don't use the uplink port on the dlink. disable dhcp on it or buy a switch [Edited on May 6, 2009 at 7:25 PM. Reason : .] oh, you're forced to use uplink because of port shortage. buy a switch or flash the linksys with tomato/dd-wrt allowing more flexible configurations."

At some point during the 5 million edits I made, I had it in my mind that all working ports of the linksys were unable to be used due to cable routing.

5/7/2009 2:51:51 PM