Re: piggybacking a wireless router on a another router, and DHCP

Dan wrote:

Are you sure that's a linksys device?  Sounds like D-Link.

<sigh> Right you are.  Linksys, D-link, Dinky-Link, sheesh.

o/` It's all networking to me o/`

Did you mean to say that you hooked it up to the "WAN" port on the new
WRT54GC?  My connection was a LAN port from the old (main) router to the WAN
port on the new router.

No, not the WAN port.  I hooked up to the LAN port.  If you hook up to
the WAN port you are creating a separate network, probably in it's own
subnet.

The key is to make sure the wireless AP's IP has a different IP than the
router, but is in the same subnet.

The old (main) router's address is 192.168.8.1 and the new router's is
192.168.0.1, so I guess I avoid address conflicts that way.

Yes, but you probably can't access network resources on the 192.168.8
subnet.

If you hookup to a LAN port, and disable the dlink's dhcp server, you
will be on the main router's network (which is what I assume you want to
do).

But what was the deal with the D-Link tech instructing me to disable DHCP?

By disabling DHCP on the dlink, and making the two routers work on the
same subnet, the two routers won't assign conflicting IP's.

david