How to access router with DHCP server disabled?


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I daisy chained two routers by enabling RIP on the first router and disable DHCP server on the second rounter while giving it a LAN ip outside of first router's DHCP pool.

However, after I disabled 2nd router's DHCP server, I don't know how to get back to its login page again. I tried connecting to the LAN ip I gave to the 2nd router, but I hit a dead end with no page found.

Both routers are Netgear. One is RP614, the other one is MR814.

Any help is appreciated :cool:

Huh? If your putting the 2nd router on the first routers network "while giving it a LAN ip outside of first router's DHCP pool. " Why would you turn on RIP? Did you turn on RIP on the first router? What routing information do you think you need to pass between these 2 routers that seem to be on the same network segment?

Reset the router to factory defaults if your having an issue connecting to its interface. What IP address did your machine have when you tried to connect to the 2nd routers interface? Where they even on the same segment?

Curious what IP address did you put on the 2nd routers WAN interface.. I would assume since you felt you needed Routing Information to be passed between these routers -- you would be routing.. and therefore one network connected to the WAN port, another on the LANs

Disconnect the 2nd router from everything but your machine.. then put your machine on the same segment as the routers LAN IP you gave.. try to connect to it then.

Dude are you wanting to route between segments on your network -- or are you just tying to create a access point out of your MR814? You do not need to turn on RIP for that.. and are you plugging the 2nd router into the first using one of its LAN ports..

Here is a guide on using a wireless router as an access point;

http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/wireless-...cess-point.html

BudMan thx for the feedback. I already did what they said in the guide and the network was running fine. The only problem was that I couldn't access the 2nd router's login page. Later I found that I didn't assign an ip to the 2nd router in the same range as the rest of my network. The mistake I made was my network was running on 192.168.0.x, and I set the 2nd router to be 192.168.1.1, which is outside .0.x. After I fixed the ip to 192.168.0.254, I am able to login to the 2nd router.

Thanks again.

So you did just want an access point ;) I couldn't figure why in the world you would turn on RIP -- when you said you put the second routers IP into your orig address space??

Glad you got it working.

  iczman said:

I do have RIP enabled on my 1st router. I don't have to do that for my configuration to work?

NO -- where did you get the idea that you need RIP??

The Routing Information Protocol, or RIP

RIP sends routing-update messages at regular intervals and when the network topology changes. When a router receives a routing update that includes changes to an entry, it updates its routing table to reflect the new route. http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/ci...ito_doc/rip.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing_Information_Protocol

RIP is used to dynamically adapt to changes in network connections, you have 1 segment.. what routing info do you think you need to update. you only have 1 route.. ie your first router.. You don't even have any other routers on the network? You have an access point, and hosts. Who exactly do you think your sending Routing Updates too?

Even if you were using your 2nd router as a true router, and had a different segment.. RIP would not be needed.. since you would not be changing routes on the fly or adding new networks -- would you?

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