I have 5 computer systems, a cable modem and 2 routers. I had all 4 systems and the cable modem connected to the one Router (DI-704P Rev A 2.56 build 20)and it worked fine. When I got the 5th system, I had no more ports, therefore needed to get something to allow this PC access to the LAN. I was going to buy a switch but the gentleman at Future Shop told me the DI-704P Rev C (Firmware Ver.3.00, Fri June 27, 2003)can act as a switch. I have 3 PCs, Router#1 and the cable modem upstairs and 2 PCs with the second router downstairs. The cable modem is in the WAN port. I have a crossover cable going from Port 1 on router 1 into the WAN port on router 2. I have router #1 set up as 192.168.0.1 and router #2 as 192.168.0.2. I've tried everything I can think of. It seems like I have 2 192.168.0 networks and I cant get router #2 to see router #1 as the default gateway. Please help. Thank you in advance for your time.

On router #2 move the connection from the WAN port over to Port 1 on its LAN side and assign it the 192.168.0.2 address.

Actually, I should have said that you need to go into the routers setup and configure the internal (LAN) interface of that router to be 192.168.0.2

Also make sure you turn off the DHCP server on the second router.

I have a similar problem, but I'll try what was suggested here. I will not get a chance to for a couple of days, but let me ask some follow up questions.

My situation involves two routers, but router one is a DSL modem/router and router two is a wireless router. Both have DHCP running on them. The wireless is for our lan and the dsl one is for internet connection.

Router one, the DSL modem, defaults to 192.168.254 and router two defaults to 192.168.0.

On the 192.168.0 lan are three computers and two printers - the printers use the ethernet ports on the wireless router while the pc's use the wireless connection. The wireless router has four cable ports and a WAN port.

On router one, there is only the one ethernet port which is supposed to go to a pc. There is also a fon line in. If you are connecting to a hub, there is a crossover ethernet cord to use.

So let me see if I have this straight. Disable the DHCP on the wireless router (# two), cable from router one to router two lan port (1 of 4), but not wan port.

Do I use the crossover cable? Do I change the wireless router's ip to be on the DSL router's subnet - 192.168.254?

Both vendors have told me I need to disable the others dhcp server. Neither has provided a solution that worked.