JWColby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Dec 19 15:30:14 CST 2006
The first thing you should know is that normally you hook the WAN input of a router up to a normal channel of the object "ahead" of you in the LAN. IOW, if there is a cable modem then a router, the router's WAN goes to the output of the cable modem. If you hook up the WAN from a router to a normal channel of another router, then you "isolate" the router second in line. It can see out, but the lead router can't see down in to the second in line router. Thus you would want to hook a normal channel of the second router to a normal channel of the first router, NOT the WAN of the second router to a normal channel of the first router, UNLESS you intentionally want to have an isolated network. Take all this with a grain of salt however as I am in no way a notwork guy. I went out and bought an 8 channel gigabit switch. I hook the wireless up to the cable modem (head of the chain), then the gb switch up to the wireless router (tail of the chain). All of my hardwired machines I hook to the gb switch. In this day and age a lot of machines have gb NICs so if everyone talks amongst themselves over the gb switch they can do so at a much higher speed. Going out to the web, they all share a connection from the switch to the router (typically 100mb) and from there throttled waaaaaaay down to the typical 5 mbit (or in my case 3mb) out to the internet. Likewise since the wireless is typically 56 mbit, it does no harm being inside of the head 100mb router as it can't handle the gb speeds anyway. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Carbonnell Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 4:02 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] "Daisy-Chaining" D-Link Routers On 12/19/06, John Bartow <john at winhaven.net> wrote: > Bryan, > If I undertsand this correctly yoou'll be using the DI-524 as the > router and the DI-704P as the access point for your printer to be networked. not quite. the 704 will be the router and access point for the printer. The 524 will be the Wireless access pont, not routing, just switching/hubbing :) > If so, the first thing to do is download the latest firmware from > Dlink http://support.dlink.com/downloads/ (because it will set all > your setting s back to default. While there download the manual if you don't have it. Done and got 'em > Next, check the list of compatible printers for the 704P. (Just > because your printer isn't in the list doesn't mean it won't work work > though.) Then download the manual and applications for it. THe printer is working fine on the 704 > After that it you have questions let me know, by some odd coincidence > I happen to have both of those units. Where I am running into issues is with wireless connectivity. I have changed the IP of the 524 to 192.168.0.2 and disabled the DHCP server in it. Wirelessly I can get to the admin pages of both routers, but I can't get out to the 'net. The way its setup right now is: Cable Modem --> WAN port on 704, LAN Port of 704 --> LAN port of 524 Right now the 704 is connected to the 524 with a regular CAT5 cable, but I have read conflicting info about needing a cross-over cable. -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!" _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com