Hotel wifi splashpage help

packerfan2

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I need to run two separate routers off of one cable modem. Router one will handle a wired PC that runs business specific software. Router two will run 4 wireless access points & also houses a splash page.

Router one connects to the cable modem with a static WAN connection, and has to have it's dhcp active. It's a cisco RVS 4000

Router two is a buffalo running dd-wrt with nocatsplash active. All traffic running through this router must accept my terms and conditions prior to WAN access.

Router one's IP is 10.10.10.101 & I believe it's set up correctly. It's in gateway mode.

My question is, how do I configure router #2 to share the WAN connection? Some solutions on this forum suggested entering router #2's IP into #1's DMZ and then using router #1's IP as the DNS server for #2. IF that's the solution would I leave the WAN setting of #2 to "static" and just leave everything blank besides the DNS fields?

Thanks in advance!
 
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If you’re going to go that route you would want to enter the static addressing from their private addressing range configured on the Cisco.

Say locally they have an address of 192.168.12.1/24 set for the computers behind the Cisco. The buffalo would be put on an open address in that range (192.168.12.2-192.168.12.254), whatever’s open. The DNS addressing would then be set to the DGW address, which is the Cisco’s IP address.

Ideally you could pay an extra $15ish a month for another 4 public static IP addresses so both routers could be hooked up directly to the modem.


packerfan2

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I believe I answered part of my own question. I set the LAN gateway/DNS settings on Router #2 to the IP of Router #1. If that's the case, how should the WAN setting on router #2 be configured??

Thanks in advance.
 

HotAirGuy

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If you’re going to go that route you would want to enter the static addressing from their private addressing range configured on the Cisco.

Say locally they have an address of 192.168.12.1/24 set for the computers behind the Cisco. The buffalo would be put on an open address in that range (192.168.12.2-192.168.12.254), whatever’s open. The DNS addressing would then be set to the DGW address, which is the Cisco’s IP address.

Ideally you could pay an extra $15ish a month for another 4 public static IP addresses so both routers could be hooked up directly to the modem.




 
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