hookup wndr3700 and unmanaged switch

[BartP]

Hi all,

I bought a cheap unmanaged 8 port gigabyte switch, which I presume is without an uplink port. I want to connect this to the wndr3700 wireless gigabit router.
Now I want to have all clients connected to the router and the switch to operate on the same subnet (otherwise windows clients won't be able to see eachother).

First possibility I see is to connect the 8-port switch to one of the lan-ports on the router. I think this won't work, because I /think/ it's impossible to assign an ip-address to either of the connected ports.

Second possibility is to connect the 8-port switch to the wan-port, the only port an ip-adress can be assigned to (I assume). This then makes available two options.
1) use the router in routing mode. This won't do because I will end up with two subnets.
2) use the router as an access point. This should work I think.

I can't test this here, as all the equipment is at a different place.

What do you think?

- Bart

 

[thiggins]

All of today's switches have auto MDI/X, which means they don't have dedicated uplink ports. All ports automatically detect whether they are connected to a device or another switch and set themselves up correctly.

Switch ports don't have IP addresses. Devices have IP addresses.

Just connect a cable from any port on the switch to any port on the router LAN side and you'll be fine.

 

[BartP]

Just connect a cable from any port on the switch to any port on the router LAN side and you'll be fine.

Thanks, I'll try that.