How to connect 2 routers (Asmax and D-link)

Posted by piobyz on Super User See other posts from Super User or by piobyz
Published on 2010-06-02T14:56:33Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 15:04 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 283

Filed under:
|
|
|
|

I just bought a new router, D-link DSL 2641B and want to connect it to another one, provided by my ISP, Asmax AR 804MP.

Previously, I had Linksys WRT350N, and there was no problem, while I had Ethernet cable plugged in to one of LAN ports in Asmax and INTERNET(RJ45) port in Linksys, connection used PPPoE protocol -- worked OK.

D-link has DSL(RJ11) port (which I don't want to use as Asmax replacement, while there is a separate Ethernet cable with a TV plugged to Asmax, which I don't want to configure from scratch on D-link).

How should I connect my new D-link to work with Asmax? Via DSL port? Via one of the LAN ports (in which case I probably should change the purpose of this port in the config, I guess?).

I tried connecting D-link both ways:

  1. LAN(ASMAX) to LAN(DLINK)
  2. LAN(ASMAX) to DSL(DLINK) (using RJ11 -> RJ45 cable)

I hope there is some setting in the DLINK's config that I overlooked.

I haven't tried to see what's in ASMAX's config, but I guess I don't need to change anything there, while Linksys worked just fine?

The only difference I see, is that D-link has RJ11 DSL port as WAN, and Linksys has RJ45 (called by them INTERNET) as a main WAN port.

© Super User or respective owner

Related posts about networking

Related posts about router