Subj : Re: setup
To   : Ben Ritchey
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Tue May 02 2017 13:27:00

-=> Ben Ritchey wrote to All <=-


 BR> .                    Main house                      Garage Apt
 BR> .                    ___________                     ___________
 BR> City Fiber feed     |           | Ethernet LAN port |           |
 BR> ====================|192.168.2.1|===================|192.168.1.1|
 BR> .                   |           | (underground feed)|           |
 BR> .                    -----------                     -----------
 BR> .                  Linksys EA7400                 Linksys WRT3200ACM
 BR> .
 BR> .                  (no ipv6 addy)
 BR> fe80:0000:0000:0000:6238:e0ff:feba:0250

Yuk!  Unfortunately, the design of most home routers encourages the worst
possible network configuration.  Being a home network, I don't see any need to
have a second router.  However, you may need a second wifi AP, and the second
router can be configured to do this.  Third party firmware like OpenWRT/DD-WRT
will make it easier and more flexible to configure this way.  But in 99% of
cases, you can simply turn off the DHCP server in the second router and plug
the feed from the house into one of the LAN ports (NOT the WAN port), and it's
become a switch/wifi AP.

 BR> ipv6 Internet address for both routers shows blank :(

Well, that's your first issue to sort, getting IPv6 from your provider into
your LAN (unless you're using tunneling).

 BR> 192.168.1.1 Win 7 ipconfig ipv6:
 BR> 2001:0000:9d38:6ab8:0c21:0e17:b3b7:fcbc

Hmm, where did that IPv6 address come from?  Are you using a tunnel provider
directly on the Windows box?


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