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Aragorn · 24-12-2008, 21:17

Assuming there is a good reason for having two routers and a switch, connect the new router to the old router (or switch) via an enet cable into the Wan port and just use the factory defaults - the new router will get a 'wan' dhcp address from the old router (just as it would from the modem) and will supply it's own dhcp addresses to the wireless devices. (As a purist, you could always set the new router to have a 192.168.2.x address range.
However, Jonny is kind of right - why not just replace the befsr41 with the wrt54g as the only router - you can still use the switch plugged into one of the LAN ports on the wrt54g.

24-12-2008, 21:17	#7
Aragorn Inactive Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Minas Tirith, Gondor Age: 60 Posts: 3,458	Re: Networking problem Assuming there is a good reason for having two routers and a switch, connect the new router to the old router (or switch) via an enet cable into the Wan port and just use the factory defaults - the new router will get a 'wan' dhcp address from the old router (just as it would from the modem) and will supply it's own dhcp addresses to the wireless devices. (As a purist, you could always set the new router to have a 192.168.2.x address range. However, Jonny is kind of right - why not just replace the befsr41 with the wrt54g as the only router - you can still use the switch plugged into one of the LAN ports on the wrt54g.