G+_Dan K Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 hi i recently tried doing the 3 routers config. however i ran in to a snag. about every week or so one of my routers my nighthawk x4 that i use as my non iot devices router just stops working. when i log into my other nighhawn r7000 that i have conted to my modem i see that devices from my nighthawk x4 are given ip adresses from the router hub. my hub conected to my momem is 192.168.1.1 my iot router which never has this issue is 192.168.2.1 and then my nighthawk is 192.168.3.1 i am connected to the wan port on both the subnet routers amd they are conceted to a lan port on the main router. both subnets have static ip adresses assigned and dhcp is turned on. should i shut down dhcp on all but one router?? this happens about after a week of setting it up each time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason howe Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Best to do 192.168.0.1, for primary router, 2nd 192.168.1.1 3rd 192.168.2.1. So on and so forth... Theses are access ip's what ever issues for dhcp will handle the LAN connections IP address .. Wireless will be handled by the individual router, I usually start wireless dhcp around 1.150, 2.150, 3.150, assuming you aren't doing a wireless bridge Better idea to work out what we are dealing with on the local network,.. What are ADSL routers and what are wireless only routers.. Definition between the 1 has a modem jack and the other only has a wan port and I'm not talking the combo routers because they can be a prick to configure and fix when something goes wrong... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Akira Yamanita Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 That's either really strange behavior by the Nighthawk X4 router or there's unintended connectivity elsewhere between the 192.168.1.0 and 192.168.3.0 networks. Is the Nighthawk X4 accessible when you start seeing the issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason howe Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Thus is why I asked for a network list of what was where Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dan K Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 i can still log into the x4 when this happens. all my routers are wireless however tbe r7000 has wireless turned off which is the primary router should i disable dhcp on all but the primary router Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dan K Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 wifi still connects however most of the devices connected to the x4 loose Internet acess regardless if they are hard wirerd or connected via wifi on the x4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dan K Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 primary router is 192.168.1.1 second router is 192.168.2.1 and third router is 192.168.3.1 all the routers had dhcp turned on so im thinking there might be some Collison maby. i heard on a q and a episode of security now a guy disabled dhcp on all but the primary router. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Rud Dog Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Dan K take a moment to sketch it out include all configuration info on your sketch this will help at a glance to see what you have setup. If you want my setup look my posts up there is a non tested sketch of my "tobe" configuration would love to compare it to your setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dan K Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 quick question should i have dhcp turned on on all the routers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Akira Yamanita Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 You only need DHCP on the segments where DHCP is actually used. I would disable it on the main router and set the WAN interfaces on the other routers with static addresses. Keep DHCP enabled for your computer and IoT networks. That said, the behavior is not typical and I don't think that I'm the only one that suspects that you have an unintentional connection between the "main" and computer networks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dan K Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 it's just odd that the two nighthawks are the ones not acting up my iot router is a dlink and allways worked. i will disable dhcp on the main router and see what happens. the main router waa set up to have static ips for the 2 other routers and the x4 was set up as a static ip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dan K Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 im wondering if something is going on bc they are both netgear nighthawks maby a different router would work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Akira Yamanita Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Dan K If you're sure that there's nothing wrong with your network connections, I'd say that the X4 is misbehaving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dan K Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 im going to try switching the main router and the other night hawk and see if there is still a issue. has anyone had experience with the nighthawk x4 router Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dan K Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 thank you all for the wonderful feedback much appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dan K Posted March 8, 2016 Author Share Posted March 8, 2016 so far since i made the x4 my primary router so far so good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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