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No Internet on Second Router
I'm using an XR300 as my primary router and an R7000 as my secondary router. They're bridged together with a long ethernet cable so that I can extend my internet connection to a nearby building. I've...
>Which IP Address?
The LAN IP Address. I didn't think you could change the other one anyway.
>RTFM Failure?
I tried the method in the manual, but that's quite a bit different. It didn't end up working for me. I ended up just factory resetting both routers and then changing the settings to what I had them as before, and that worked for whatever reason.
Anyway, thanks for the insight and I think I'm all set at least for now.
Somehow I missed where it said how to connect the cable in the manual when I read it the first time. As you pointed out, I plugged the cable into a LAN port on the secondary router insead of the WAN port. I hooked it up the correct way this time, and it works. That's definitely a simpler way of doing it.
Thanks for the help and all the detailed responses.
> Somehow I missed where it said how to connect the cable [...]
And that's why "I followed the instructions" is often disbelieved,
and a (tedious, but character-building) recitation of actual actions is
almost always preferable.
Glad to hear that you got it to work (both ways).
For the basic functionality, either scheme should work, but some of
the frillier features (scheduling/time-keeping, for example) might
depend on configuration details which are tough to manage in the ad-hoc
scheme. There have also been some reports that involving the
WAN/Internet port can reduce speeds. Everything's complicated.