What can i do ...

[psp83]

Hi..

I have a spare router, its a Netgear DG834PN..
What can i do with this as its going to waste at the mo..

At home i've managed to config the router to act as a wireless extender..
So it goes DG834G > Ethernet cable > DG834PN < Laptop..
But this was only a test to see if it would work.. The DG834G gives 5/5 wireless signal anyways so the other router is not needed.

Would this work with a CISCO router? At work, all our connections are wired. But its a pain for when clients come to the office and wants to access the net with there laptops.

Would i be able to plug this straight into the CISCO router and it work straight away or will it be best to plug it into the switch that splits the cables to the computers ?

Paul

[Lance]

My guess would be that it can be plugged directly into the cisco routers, as long as it knows where to get it's ip address from (IOW it knows how to find the DHCP server).

[Sebby]

You should be able to do this without too many problems.

Firstly, you'll need to change the Netgear's IP address to something in the same range as the work network, but make it something that probably won't be assigned by the Cisco's DHCP server, e.g. x.x.x.254.

Next, disable DHCP on the Netgear.

You'll need a piece of crossover cable, which you can connect from the Cisco router to one of the ports on the Netgear.

That should work. 

[psp83]

We manually set our IPs through each computer at the mo due to the way the network is setup.. But i will be changing this when we change ISP in a month or 2..

The PN router DHCP is turn't off and in my test setup.. the IP's given out by the G router worked fine. But i think i set the PN router IP address to one of the G ip address range. Can't really remember now how its setup.

[psp83]

You should be able to do this without too many problems.

Firstly, you'll need to change the Netgear's IP address to something in the same range as the work network, but make it something that probably won't be assigned by the Cisco's DHCP server, e.g. x.x.x.254.

Next, disable DHCP on the Netgear.

You'll need a piece of crossover cable, which you can connect from the Cisco router to one of the ports on the Netgear.

That should work. 

Most of that has already been done 

But i used a straight through cable when i tested.. But i know the cisco router only works with crossovers.. But thats ok, i can make a cable if we've got none spare.

What i dont know about is.. the cisco router doesn't have DHCP enabled and only the ISP has access to the router.. we've asked plenty of times for the router login details but not got any yet, 6months and counting.. Will manually setting the IP addresses still work?

[Sebby]

I'm not the most advanced when it comes to networking, but assuming all IP addresses on the network are static, you should be able to just assign any devices that connect via the Netgear static IPs in the same range.

With crossover cable, it should work fine.

[Lance]

Manually setting it should work fine :

[psp83]

I will give it a try then, 

[Adam]

Depending on the Cisco router you are trying to connect to you may need to manually set an IP address on the routers end, or bring the interface up if it is shutdown. You may also actually need a straight through cable as you'll be connecting to the DG834PN's switch, not it's router port, though it may work differently in practice. I'm also unsure if you'll need to set a default route in the DG834PN, or if it'll simply forward the traffic out of its switch ports.

It may be simplier to connect it directly to the switch, though again the router (DG834PN) may need a default route to tell it where to send the traffic. You'll also need to ensure the DG834PN's IPs are in the same subnet as the router so it can communicate without the use of routing.

[psp83]

Well i didnt take it to work in the end, i decided to use it as a switch in my home office, i've now got my main computer and xbox 360 connected to it 

[Lance]

Thanks for the update!