I need help briding two routers wirelessly with DDWRT!

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SuperGamerDude

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Hey guys, what's up? I have been trying to configure my ddrwt router (Cisco E1200 Wireless N router by Linksys), and my main router upstairs (Belkin N300 XR Wireless N router) to make a client wireless bridge between each other so i can connect my pc to ethernet without running a cord through my house. The problem is, right now i cannot access my second routers config. I can access the first one. Those are not the only problems though. When I was able to connect to the second routers config page before in the DDrwt dashboard, I setup my secondary router in client bridge mode, and all other settings according to one video I watched, and tried to connect wirelessly to my main router. For some reason, it did not let me connect ethernet to the second router working, as it said unidentified limited network when I did so. In the status, and then wireless tab, it showed my primary routers Mac Address, but they were not connected wirelessly at all. But before we get to the second issue, I need help accessing the second routers config in the first place.

Here is the video I watched:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE1mr-TXUPo

Thanks Guys!
 
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ronintexas
Your "default gateway" is the path to the internet, and also the device that assigns DHCP and DNS to the network (that should be the belkin router). The Cisco router is just a "dumb switch" that has ethernet ports and wireless capability - but no DHCP or DNS.

If your primary router is 192.168.2.1, you should assign the secondary router the IP address of 192.168.2.2 (the first 3 octets of an IP address should always be the same on the same network - for simplicity sake....if you are utilizing a DNS server that has more than 253 devices attached, then it can be different). Make sure to reserve that IP address. When you connect to either router, it will show the gateway as the belkin.
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The best way to do this would be to have one computer connected to each router (one router connected to the net). Have the config page up on each router. The default IP address for routers are usually 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 - so you have to change one of them to 192.168.0.2 (or 192.168.1.2), and reserve the IP address in the first router.

So in theory, the Belkin router should be 192.168.0.1 and the Cisco router should be 192.168.0.2.

The Belkin router should have DHCP and DNS enabled, the Cisco router should have DHCP and DNS disabled.

I have tried this many times with different brand routers, and even with the same brand routers, and had mixed results.
 
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Thanks SO much for the rep! However, I cannot even access the second routers IP address to get to the config right now, although it is connected via wire to my PC, which is connected to the internet via wifi to my primary
router. My IP config/all shows that my wifi adapter has a default gateway of 192.168.2.1, which is the address to my primary router, but my ethernet adapter, which is shown because I am connected to my second router via ethernet, shows the same default gateway, 192.168.2.1. I am assuming this is why I cannot access my second routers config. Can you help?
 
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You can do a factory reset on the second router - that will put it back to default. You then need to configure your pc to connect to that router, make the necessary changes to the configuration, and then reboot the router. It should try to connect. If it doesn't - you still should be able to connect to that router via ethernet cable. In playing with several of these configurations, I had to reset the routers to default settings quite a few times to get them to play together.....
 
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Thanks for all your help ronintexas! I was able to successfully access the second routers config, setup the client bridge, and now I am connect via ethernet to my second router, which my second router is connected wirelessly to the primary. I now have internet access via the bridged router. However, I can no longer access my second routers default gateway to get back to the ddwrt page to double check everything is working correctly. In my ipconfig, it shows that under ethernet, the default gateway is my primary routers address, 192,.168.2.1, and i can only access that routers config, but not the second router. Any thoughts?
 
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Your "default gateway" is the path to the internet, and also the device that assigns DHCP and DNS to the network (that should be the belkin router). The Cisco router is just a "dumb switch" that has ethernet ports and wireless capability - but no DHCP or DNS.

If your primary router is 192.168.2.1, you should assign the secondary router the IP address of 192.168.2.2 (the first 3 octets of an IP address should always be the same on the same network - for simplicity sake....if you are utilizing a DNS server that has more than 253 devices attached, then it can be different). Make sure to reserve that IP address. When you connect to either router, it will show the gateway as the belkin.
 
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