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stormtrooper200's avatar
Aug 27, 2013

Bridging two networks

Hello,
I am wondering if this configuration is possible.

I have a netgear wireless router (Call it MainRouter) that is connect to my ISP. The ip address is 192.168.1.1 and it has a couple of devices that connect to it wirelessly using WPA2-PSK.

I just bought a Netgear WN2000 wireless router (called secondaryrouter). I would like to have this router in a different physical location connect to Main Router wirelessly and utilize it for internet access. I would also like this router to use a different network 10.0.0.x and use different WPA credentials for devices to connect to it. The external port of this router would have an IP address of 192.168.1.4 so it could communicate with MainRouter. This router would also need to have the WPA2-PSK key for MainRouter to allow it to connect basically as a device.

So my phone would have an IP address of 10.0.0.5 and connect to secondary router. when it connects to the internet, it would go through the gateway of 10.0.0.1 (SecondaryRouter IP address) which would forward the data to 192.168.1.1 and send it to the internet

Is this possible, and if so, is there any documentation that someone can point me to?

Thanks!

Stormtrooper