req: netowrk configuration help

[FredThompson]

yeah, yeah, I know, move this post if you must ;)

Linksys appears to have new cost cutting meaning no replys to help requests. dorks.

I've got 2 BEFSR41s. There are 4-port router/switch/firewall/thingees. How in the world can a second one be slaved to an existing one such that the slave is only a switch and the first one provides DHCP to the slave?

(Trying to get my office to connect to the TiVo and computer downstairs.)

The manual mentions the uplink jack only in passing. There's nothing I can find that talks about configuration to run as anything other than a full router.

If this can't be done, I've also got a Siemens SS2604 that could be used as a switch.

[BubbleLamp]

Just connect the switch portions via an uplink port on one end to one of the switch ports on the other end. Or use a crossover cable and go from switch port to switch port and you're done. DHCP has nothing to do with the switching side of things. Basically the WAN port of the slaved router wouldn't be used.

The other way is to use the WAN port on the slave and disable all the firewall stuff, but that's more trouble than it's worth.

[FredThompson]

ok, so which uplink port do I use, the router that is full-service or the switch-only router?

I assume for the switch-only router I should turn off DHCP. Anything else which should be turned off?

You don't have this type of router, do you? I seem to recall you use a different brand.

[BubbleLamp]

Originally posted by FredThompson
ok, so which uplink port do I use, the router that is full-service or the switch-only router?

I assume for the switch-only router I should turn off DHCP. Anything else which should be turned off?

You don't have this type of router, do you? I seem to recall you use a different brand.

Page 20 of the manual I D/L'd shows how to do it. You basically connect an Ethernet cable to the Uplink port on one end, and a normal port on the other end. Keep in mind the uplink port and port 1 can't be used at the same time.

Yea, I'd turn off the DHCP server of the second switch. Most of the rest of the stuff concerns traffic to/from the WAN port, so it won't have any affect on the switch.

[FredThompson]

Hmmm...Linksys must have changed the User Guide. Page 20 of the version I have concerns settings the password for the router configuration screens.

Thanks, I'll go get the current one.

--update--

Oh, yeah, the current version is 66 pages, my old one is 26 pages. That can't all be fluff.