Router To Router Setup

[the.freak]

Hey :

1st lemme say that neither me nor my friend know anything about router to router setups, so we need to know a few things. He's got a TP-Link W542G v4 wireless router, and a D-Link wired router, he wants to setup a 2 router environment and in the TP-Link config subnet can only be set as 255.255.255.0 or 255.255.0.0 nothing else ...

How do we set things up so all his 4 PCs work as well as wireless connection for iPhone ?

P.S : D-Link HAS to be the one connected to Internet via WAN .... Not TP-Link !

Please help !

 

[DelJo63]

connect thusly

modem-- {wan}router#1{lan} --- {lan}router#2 {lan}--- other systems
              |                          |
              + --- wired or wireless    +-- wired or wireless

on router#2, disable the DHCP feature

router#1 will now control ALL systems and print/file sharing is also possible

 

[the.freak]

Why do so other places tell me to keep DHCP on on both routers ?

 

[DelJo63]

you can, but the devices attached to the second router will not share well with those on the first

If you enable BOTH to have DHCP, you create two subnets and need to also set a separate IP address for router#2.

If you disable DHCP, the router#1 runs the whole show