WAN settings for second router

[Michele42]

hi, I'm having troubles connecting a second router to my primary router. I've looked into plenty of guides but not a single one says what kind of connection you are supposed to establish on the secondary router. My primary one is connected with a pppoe and no matter what kind of connection I set on the second router, it doesn't connect to the web. I followed the LAN-LAN method. Than you

 

[Isokolon]

usually you don't need to establish a new connection as the dial-in is provided by the primary.
however in some cases you need to port forward the IP of the secondary
also you have to distinguish the internal IP ranges so there's no conflict between the two and devices connecting to it

 

[nigelivey]

Above is not correct. If you are going LAN to LAN there are some very simple steps. Find out what the DHCP range is of the first router by logging into it, you then set the IP as static on the second router within the same subnet but outside the dhcp range of router 1. On the second router you will need to turn off the firewall, nat and dhcp server. You connect from router 2 LAN port not WAN to one of the LAN ports on router 1. That's all thats required. Router 2 then becomes a Wireless access point (if it has wireless) and a switch without any routing, this will all be handled by router 1.

IF Router 1 is on 192.168.1.1 login and set its DHCP to something like 192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1.100 depending how many hosts you want, this means you can use 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.9 for static assignments. On Router 2 set its IP address to 192.168.1.2. You can now login into both routers on the same net.

 

[PhysX_HW]

You should turn off the DHCP server on the secondary router and let the first one assign an IP to it, in its own IP range which is either 192.168.0.xxx or 192.168.1.xxx. And you should set the WAN type to DHCP. If you want to do port forwarding on the second router, then you can either forward the ports on both, or you can set up a DMZ for the second router's address, and the you'd only need to set up the forwarding on that router.