Originally Posted by
rans6andrew
If I pull the cable from the input of the secondary router and poke it into the freeview box it gives me a load of addresses for the above items and connects to the internet.
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Ethernet Adapter local area connection:
Link-local IPv6 Address is the same in both cases
IPv4 address 192.168.1.15 on primary 192.168.0.105 on secondary
Subnet mask is the same in both cases
Default Gateway 192.168.1.1 on primary 192.168.0.1 on secondary
I guess I need to put a few of the address differences into the manual setup on my freeview box and see if it connects?
Rans6.................
I guess that for reasons unknown that DHCP is not working for your freeview box on the secondary router.
SO:-
You should be able to manually configure it.
You want an address that is not going to be assigned by DHCP or in use by the router.
Valid range is 1-253.
Say-
192.168.0.2 255.255.255.0
default gateway 192.168.0.1
DNS 192.168.0.1
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This is still a kludge. You would be best to use a LAN side port on the secondary to join the two networks and to turn DHCP off on the secondary.
You should change the address of the secondary so that you can manage it. Say to 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0
Don't forget the addresses. Put labels on kit.
In BOTH cases hopefully .2 is out of the DHCP range and not statically assigned to anything else.