Two Cable Modems and Routers on One Network?

[Clyph Stole]

I've had good success setting up two zyxel routers on two separate networks to share cable internet access.
My question is, will I run into any problems when I tie the two networks together? Will the two cable modem/router setups conflict with each other?

Thanks in advance,

Clyph

[CBurcik]

They shouldn't conflict......

What are you using to connect them and what IP addressing scheme are you using for both networks?

[Clyph Stole]

CB,

Thanks for the response.

The Peer-to-Peer networks are running on the cheap...D-Link DSS-8+ Switches (which I have been suprising ly happy with).

IP's are assigned dynamically by the routers.

I guess my question was, with both routers assigning dynamically, what will keep the systems from overloading one router while leaving the other underused.

Mike

[CBurcik]

I don't think that you can have 2 DHCP servers on the same segment. (but I could be wrong)

If you are only talking about 16 clients, I would assign static IP's and load balance by the primary gateway you assign to each client.


Is there a reason you want dynamically assigned IP's?

[Clyph Stole]

Ease of administration.

[jorey]

Can you not get rid of one cable subscription and use one router for the whole network? Or how is the geographical spreading of both networks? Linking to networks together always requires extra administration.
Besides are you using the same ip address pool on both networks?
Kind Rgds
J.R.

[Phantom-Vortex]

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[Clyph Stole]

Phantom V,

Okay, now can you put training wheels on that discussion for me??

Yours in abject confusion,

Clyph

[YeOldeStonecat]

For routers (gateways) to work well on the same physical network, you'll be better off assigning static IP's, Gateway, and DNS to the network, assigning each router a unique IP address. Say the default for the router is 192.168.0.1 Well since you'll need two routers on the same network, change the default on one of them to say, 192.168.0.2 and make that the Gateway for half of your network. Pretty easy actually. Static IP's on your network workstations, say 192.168.0.100 - 253. DNS entries also, which can be the same, just your ISP's DNS servers.

[CrazY BOnEs]

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[YeOldeStonecat]

Welcome! Wow, this thread came back from the oldies...

[littletechgirl]

Was just reading through threads and saw this - thought I'd drop a hello to ya Stone Cat!

Cheers!

littletechgirl