[Nottingham] Router to Router?

[James Moore]

On 30/11/2011 10:58, Jason Irwin wrote:
> Had a minor victory today in that I got my ancient Belkin DSL 
> modem/router to act a switch when plugged into the Virgin Superhub - 
> even if it was just a case of "guess the option" and making random 
> changes until it worked.  I'll have to use this until the new switch 
> arrives (Netgear G608, Gigabit, 8 port jobby - any opinions?).  I'd 
> just like to check that I've not done anything monumentally stupid 
> with my kludge.
>
> I've left the Superhub alone (it runs the DHCP, wireless etc).  The 
> Belkin is connected to the Superhub via one of its Ethernet ports.  On 
> the Belkin I have disabled DHCP, Firewall, Wireless etc and told it to 
> use the Internet WAN in "Dynamic IP (1438 bridged)" mode, all DNS 
> settings left at "Auto from ISP".  I also changed its LAN IP to be in 
> the range used by the Superhub, subnets are the same. Prior to this it 
> was refusing to even acknowledge the the Superhub.
>
> Laptops plugged into the Belkin are getting IPs assigned from the 
> Superhub OK and access to the Internet is working (obviously, 
> otherwise I wouldn't be writing this).  I can also access the set-up 
> pages of both routers.
>
> Does all this seem sensible enough for an interim solution?
>
> J.
> ps This reminds me just how much I need to go back and complete that 
> HP networking course I signed up for.
>
>
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Bit of a long way round, I think (once I got my groggy noggin round it). 
All I did to my gear (Netgear 4+W+C and Busybox 4+1) was set the Busybox 
to a different subnet, connected its WAN port to one of the LAN ports on 
the Netgear which in turn ran the internet connection, and ran with two 
networks - one for server use and one for gaming/transient hardware. I 
think, I might be reading it wrong, that you've used one of the LAN 
ports on your slave router rather than the WAN port to connect to the 
other? Dunno, seems a bit of a waste of a perfectly usable port...
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