2 routers, 2 SSIDs

[b5white]

Background:
I need to have a filtered (opendns) and an unfiltered wireless network in my home. I purchased 2 ASUS RT-N43 routers s oI can set them up each with their own DNS settings. They have separate SSIDs.
That part works great.
I just can't get them to play nicely together.
Suggestions for how to set them up?

Details:
Modem is 192.168.0.1
Router1 is 192.168.1.1
I expected Router2 to be 192.168.2.1 on the LAN side and 192.168.1.2 on the WAN side, but that didn't seem to work.
Right now it is 192.168.1.3 on both sides.
R1 can see R2 now, but R2 doesn't think it has internet.
I have DHCP turned off on R2, but I could go either way on that.

 

[fowang]

Why two routers you can run two ssid's and more on one of the routers? How are the routers connected to the network, are both routers connected to the modem? or have you connected the routers in a daisy chain?

 

[b5white]

I've done that before, but I can't find any routers that let you have different DNS settings for the separate SSIDs.
They said I would need two separate routers to do that.
Now I have two routers.
Yes, they are daisy chained.
They are both on the 192.168.1.* subnet.
I can reach the internet connected to the second router, with ethernet or wireless, even though its internet light isn't on.
But they are both using the DNS from the primary. 8: -(

 

[bill001g]

First you do realize opendns is not security, it is more for people who do not want to accidentally go to certain sites. Google for many years when you search for opendns suggest a second word of "bypass" because it was search for so much. It is trivial to bypass opendns.

The different SSID you can run with them connected lan-lan but to get a different DNS you must have DHCP running and that means keeping the networks separate with lan-wan as you first tried.

Hard to say why it didn't work. Your second router should not know that it wan port is another router in your house. As long as the subnets do not overlap it should work. Maybe 192.168.1.2 got assigned to a different device make sure the ip you pick is outside the scope of your dhcp settings.

You can actually do this on a single router but you would need a router that supports third party firmware like dd-wrt. It still does not fix the opendns problem. You can make it harder for them to bypass but you can never stop the guy who understands how dns and host files work.