Connecting two routers

[mishmash]

Hello,

I currently have two routers, one is a Netgear WNDR3700-100PES which I intend to flash with Gargoyle today. I have a second router which model I don't recall currently.

I want to connect the second router to the first, so the second router with get a single IP and I will be able to do bandwidth management to that single router.

I understand I can do this two ways:

1.) Connect the second router to the first through LAN ports. But this means all the clients connecting to the second router will show up as separate clients to the first (if I disable DHCP on the second). I don't really want this.

2.) Connect the second routers WAN port to the first routers LAN port. This will create a sub-network and the second router will show up as one IP address to the first. Correct?

Creating a separate subset is not an issue for me, as I really just want to control how much bandwidth all the clients on the second router use, I don't need to control them separately, just as a whole.

Any suggestions / guides on how to do this? I have some experience with routers but not to this extent. Any help would be appreciated.

[DoesItMatter]

Your #2 method would work.

If you don't use a DMZ, I would suggest putting the Router #2 IP
into the DMZ of Router #1

That way it would look like Router #1 is connected directly to the
internet and not being routed through a 2nd router.

[ergophobe]

I am trying to do exactly this, but so far I can't get internet access from the second router.

I found connect router to router and Creating another AP via second router but I'm not quite there.

So the idea is that
- router 1 connects to the satellite modem and runs gargoyle
- router 2 connects to router 1 and provides a guest access network with a daily data quota.

So far
- from router 1 I can connect to the internet
- from router 2 I can connect to the router 2 admin and the router 1 admin pages

What I can't do is access the internet from router 2.

Modem IP is 192.168.0.1

Router 1 (gargoyle) is set up as follows
WAN
- connect via DHCP (current IP 192.168.0.3)
LAN
- IP is 192.168.1.1
- Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
- DNS: default from ISP
- DHCP Server enabled, 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.249
- Assigned static IP for router 2: 192.168.1.2
- DMZ: 192.168.1.2

Router 2 is configured as follows
WAN IP: 192.168.1.2
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1
Primary DNS: 192.168.1.1
Secondary DNS: 192.168.1.1

LAN IP: 192.168.2.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
DHCP: enabled
DHCP range: 192.168.2.100 to 192.168.2.200

I've tried a lot of different settings, but that's the best effort.

Any help would be most appreciated!

[ergophobe]

So I got this working by having the secondary router use DHCP to connect to the primary, but I can't seem to get it to work with a static IP.

I'm clearly putting in the wrong number somewhere, but I can't figure out where. When I access the primary control panel, I can see that the secondary is connected as 192.168.1.2, but what I need to do is make sure it always has that address, rather than letting it potentially give up the IP and get a new one via DHCP.