[ale] question about ganging routers together

[Ron Frazier]

Hi guys.  My schedule only lets me get on the list intermittently.  It 
takes a bit of time to keep up with all the postings.  I'm going to try 
to catch up on the old posts, including any which may have been old 
replies to my messages since I was last on a couple of weeks ago.  In 
any case, I have a question about ganging routers together.  I hope I 
can explain this in a way that makes sense.

I have my main router 192.168.83.1 (LAN address) which connects to the 
internet.  I wanted to test another wireless router 192.168.79.1 (LAN 
address).  Both routers are set up to provide DHCP service.  I plugged 
router 79 into a LAN port on router 83.  I meant to run the cable from 
the WAN port on router 79 to the LAN port on router 83.  However, I 
actually ran the cable from LAN to LAN port by mistake.  I have 
subsequently fixed the mistake, but what they did really confused me, so 
I hope some of you can shed some light on it.  While the cables were 
wrong, I logged into 79 wirelessly, and proceeded to access the 
internet, which worked just fine.  I had expected to get an IP address 
from router 79 which would be something like 192.168.79.2, etc.  
However, when I tried to access the control panel for 79, I could not.  
I ultimately found out that my IP address was coming from 83, and was 
something like 192.168.83.2, etc.  I thought, surely I'm not wirelessly 
connected to 83.  I verified again that I was connected to 79.  It took 
me quite a while to figure out what was wrong.  Once I fixed the cables, 
everything was fine, and I got my IP from 79 as I should, and I was able 
to access it's control panel.  I'm just wondering if anyone can tell me 
what was happening, and why I wasn't getting an IP address from 79 even 
though I was logged wirelessly into it.  For that matter, I'm not really 
sure how my internet connection was working at all with it wired that 
way.  Any ideas are appreciated.

Sincerely,

Ron

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