router problem

[merrychristmas]

hey all,

a while back i posted that i was having problems with my dedicated server and allowing people to join outside my LAN. well, i think i have found the issue. it appears that i have to routers. the BT Voyager 210 that my internet comes through is then routed to my netgear WGR614 v4. i connected my computer directly to the Voyager, port forwarded properly, and people can connect. but how must i set it up so that people can join my server whilst i am connected through the netgear WGR614 v 4, which is in turn connected to the voyager.

like this: my computer --------- netgear WGR614 v4 -------- BT Voyager 210-------internet.

the reason that i must have it this way is becuase the Voyager only allows one Ethernet connect, while the netgear allows many. any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. THANKS!!!!!

[merrychristmas]

anyone?

[Drocona]

Why don't you just leave out the Voyager and plug in the netgear?
Should fix all your problems, 2 routers behind eachother don't work very well. the netgear in the setup above should be a switch, not a router.

[merrychristmas]

i cant leave the voyager out. the way i am connected to the internet requires the voyager. it is sort of like modem /router in one. so is there any way to do it with the setup i mentioned above? thanks

and how do i make the netgear a 'switch'??

[Drocona]

I'm not sure if it's possible to shutdown the router function of the netgear... that's the problem

also just to clarify things a bit:
Modem => Connects to the internet
Switch => Sends packets to the ethernet devices
Router => Modem and Switch combined into 1 machine

Unless the voyager is assigned and necessary for/by your ISP, the netgear should do exactly the same as the voyager.

[merrychristmas]

Drocona Wrote:Unless the voyager is assigned and necessary for/by your ISP, the netgear should do exactly the same as the voyager.

thats my situation. the voyager was assigned by my ISP, so i suppose it cannot be removed.

i am a bit confused about my voyager...it has options for portforwarding, yet it has only one ethernet port?

basically, i need the voyager becuase it is required by the ISP...but the netgear has to be there as a switch.

what should i do? lol

thanks very much

[fqdn]

if the voyager already does dhcp, all you need to do is pick up a cheap switch and connect it to the voyager then pull all your pc's into the switch. what seems to be happening is your voyager assigns the netgear a dhcp address then the netgear assigns your pcs another address, thus you are nat'ing twice.

from your first post, are you saying the voyager has a menu for port forwarding? that's what the wording seems to say: "i connected my computer directly to the Voyager, port forwarded properly, and people can connect."

[Drocona]

yep exactly what fqdn says

[merrychristmas]

fqdn Wrote:from your first post, are you saying the voyager has a menu for port forwarding? that's what the wording seems to say: "i connected my computer directly to the Voyager, port forwarded properly, and people can connect."

yep my voyager has a menu for portforwarding. so i just need a switch then? ok thanks for your help guys.