daisy chain Netgear RT314 and RP614?

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Given: I have 2 home routers at my disposal, a Netgear RT314 and a RP614.
Problem: I want to connect 3 computers in one room and 2 in another.
Can I daisy chain the routers together or connect them in another way, so
all computers have connectivity to the internet (through cable modem) and
to the other computers in the same room (if not the other room also).

I saw a similar topic discussed in
news5d88e7c.0406241408.60e7d156@posting.google.com
but it looked like there was some disagreement, and I wanted to ask
specifically about these routers. It appears the 614 is the newer
replacement model for the 314. Both have a built in firewall.

I tried 2 ways with no success. First I tried "plug and pray", with port
4 of the RT314 going to the "Internet" port of the RP614. No connection
from the 614's network. Both routers default to 192.168.0.1 for DHCP
addressing so I figured that may be the problem. So I configured one to
start out with 192.168.0.100 (and addressed the router itself as
192.168.0.99), but again, no dice.

Any help with configuration of the settings or the topology would be
appreciated.

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"phoenix" <phoenix@fakeaddress.invalid> wrote in message
news:a0hofsize3kt.dlg@phoenix-systems.uk.com...
> On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:59:24 GMT, Joe Blow wrote:
>
> > Given: I have 2 home routers at my disposal, a Netgear RT314 and a
RP614.
> > Problem: I want to connect 3 computers in one room and 2 in another.
> > Can I daisy chain the routers together or connect them in another way,
so
> > all computers have connectivity to the internet (through cable modem)
and
> > to the other computers in the same room (if not the other room also).
> >
> > I saw a similar topic discussed in
> > news5d88e7c.0406241408.60e7d156@posting.google.com
> > but it looked like there was some disagreement, and I wanted to ask
> > specifically about these routers. It appears the 614 is the newer
> > replacement model for the 314. Both have a built in firewall.
> >
> > I tried 2 ways with no success. First I tried "plug and pray", with
port
> > 4 of the RT314 going to the "Internet" port of the RP614. No connection
> > from the 614's network. Both routers default to 192.168.0.1 for DHCP
> > addressing so I figured that may be the problem. So I configured one to
> > start out with 192.168.0.100 (and addressed the router itself as
> > 192.168.0.99), but again, no dice.
> >
> > Any help with configuration of the settings or the topology would be
> > appreciated.
>
> Hi
>
> First, the RT314 doesn't have a firewall it is a NAT router - maybe that's
> what you mean by firewall?
>
> You can connect them together and you can use either one for connection to
> your broadband service. Let's say you have the RT314 connected to your
> broadband service, on the RP614 just disable the DHCP server and connect
> one of the ports on the RT314 to one of the LAN ports on the RP614, the
> RP614 will act as a plain-old switch in this setup. All your PCs will be
on
> the 192.168.0.x subnet and get their IPs from the RT314. You could just
> swap the router around but whichever one is downstream of you broadband
> connect should just be used as a switch and have it's DHCP server
disabled.

they both probably use the netgear default IP adr on the LAN of 192.168.0.1,
so change that on 1 unit before you hook them together, or you wont be able
to connect via HTTP to change settings etc.

check everything out with the routers in the same place before you move 1 to
the final location - much easier to fault find when you can see all the
lights....
>
> I can't remember if those routers have an uplink port (or autosensing
> ports) so you may need a cross-over cable rather than a straight through.
>
> HTH
>
> Regards
>
> Bill
--
Regards

Stephen Hope - return address needs fewer xxs

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Thanks to both of you, Stephen and Bill. My setup now works.
I read the manual for the RP614 and while it seemed to state a crossover
cable was needed for this, on a lark I plugged in a regular (straight
through) cable into the front and it worked. Because I had changed the
IP address range for the 314, I didn't turn off DHCP for the 614.

Here is my crude attempt at ASCII art for the working setup:

cable modem ----------| |
_____|____ ____|_____
| RT314 | | RP614 |
|__________| |__________|
| | | | | | | |
PC PC |------| PC PC PC


phoenix <phoenix@fakeaddress.invalid> wrote in
> You don't need to do that if the router's (on the router not connected
> to the broadband service) DHCP server is disabled, it will then just
> function as a switch.
>
> Regards
>
> Bill
>