two routers

[Guest]

Ok, well here is my issue. I am on a satellite connection with some friends
at an army base in Iraq. We have one router a Cisco that I am cabled into.
One of the other people on the network who is also cabled into the router has
their cat 5 plugged into a d-link wireless router. Now my Vista Laptop will
only give me an address off of the d-link router that I am not plugged into
which is a 192.168.1.xx instead of the 10.1.xx.xxx off of the Cisco router,
any ideas how I can keep vista from connecting to this router I am not
plugged into?

 

[Dave]

I'm not an expert, but I think that if you have more than 1 router, you need
to disable DHCP on one of them.

Here's some info I found, that may help.
http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-25271.html

 

[Rick]

Is your wireless network card in your Laptop disabled?
Rick

 

[Guest]

yes i disabled my network card, as soon as the other person plug in the 2nd
router i lose my 10. whatever ip and pick up a 192. whatver one off of the
new router and can no longer access the web

 

[Gunrunnerjohn]

Connecting two SOHO broadband routers together.

Configure the IP address of the secondary router to be in the same subnet as the
primary router, but out of the range of the DHCP server in the primary router.
For instance DHCP server addresses 192.168.0.2 through 192.168.0.100, I'd assign
the secondary router 192.168.0.254 as it's IP address.

Disable the DHCP server in the secondary router.

Setup the wireless section just the way you would if it was the primary router.

Connect from the primary router's LAN port to one of the LAN ports on the
secondary router. If there is no uplink port and neither of the routers have
auto-sensing ports, use a cross-over cable. Leave the WAN port unconnected!

Ok, well here is my issue. I am on a satellite connection with some friends
at an army base in Iraq. We have one router a Cisco that I am cabled into.
One of the other people on the network who is also cabled into the router has
their cat 5 plugged into a d-link wireless router. Now my Vista Laptop will
only give me an address off of the d-link router that I am not plugged into
which is a 192.168.1.xx instead of the 10.1.xx.xxx off of the Cisco router,
any ideas how I can keep vista from connecting to this router I am not
plugged into?

John Will
Microsoft MVP - Networking