Router to switch

[sofa king]

I have 2 routers, but I think I need one to be a switch rather than router. Any way that I can dumb one of them down fairly easily to a switch?

 

[DarkoStoj]

do you know how to log into the router?

 

[sofa king]

Yes, I can log into both.

 

[DarkoStoj]

What model router did you want to change to a switch?

 

[Tin]

Disable DHCP and the firewall, then put it on another subnet. Run the cables from LAN to LAN.

 

[sofa king]

What model router did you want to change to a switch?

I can get model number when I get home...

Disable DHCP and the firewall, then put it on another subnet. Run the cables from LAN to LAN.

I got most of that, somewhat, we're not all Bill Gates.

From the one router that is working as usual, I took a line out from say #4 port and input to the LAN on the second unit.

 

[Bateater]

Are you running so many things hard wired you need a switch? You can also turn it into a wireless access point if it's a model that can accept DD-WRT.

 

[sofa king]

One of them is a linksys wrt120N.
The other is a netgear N600.

I need the additional ports for hard wired. TV, couple desktop PC, printer, something else...

 

[Killjoy]

and input to the LAN on the second unit.

As Tin said, you need to log into the second unit and disable the DHCP server. Otherwise, they're going to race each other for assigning IPs, likely on different networks.

 

[sofa king]

As Tin said, you need to log into the second unit and disable the DHCP server. Otherwise, they're going to race each other for assigning IPs, likely on different networks.

Ok, so I found that and shut off. Has to be more than that though, not functional yet.
Do I need to assign a static IP to this one being used as a switch, or leave it to auto config?

thanks for the help!

 

[YLWFVR]

Ok, so I found that and shut off. Has to be more than that though, not functional yet.
Do I need to assign a static IP to this one being used as a switch, or leave it to auto config?

thanks for the help!

you have to give it a static IP like 192.168.1.253, or whatever your home network range is. 192.168.1.xxxx

subnet mask leave as 255.255.255.0. disable DHCP server.

 

[StockNotch]

Ok, so I found that and shut off. Has to be more than that though, not functional yet.
Do I need to assign a static IP to this one being used as a switch, or leave it to auto config?

thanks for the help!

To make things easy and, work correctly go get a switch. Switches are cheap and will probably offer you better performance than a consumer grade router along with offering you room to grow if you get a switch with say 24 or more ports.

To make this work, you would need to have Router A on one network (IP space) and Router B on another network along with having DHCP on Router B only and then, connecting Router B's "internet" port to one of the LAN ports on Router A while having its "Internet" port connected to your modem.

For example.

Router A has a network of 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0
Router B has a network of 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0
Router B has DHCP running with range of 192.168.2.1 - 192.168.2.254 ( or less if you want to limit the amount of DHCP leases)
Router B Internet port goes to Router A LAN port 1
Router A Internet port goes to Modem

 

[The Man]

I have a 24 port managed poe 10/100/1000 switch available for a deep discount if your interested... also comes with 2 fiber connectors....

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[StockNotch]

I have a 24 port managed poe 10/100/1000 switch available for a deep discount if your interested... also comes with 2 fiber connectors....

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Details?

 

[The Man]

Pm sent.

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[sofa king]

Ok now I see this....
I messed with it tonight and actually got it working, surprised, but it is going now. Yes I could have gone and bought a switch, but I already had these.
Just a challenge to figure out, got it, so I call it a success...