two routers (linksys), two hubs, cable modem -- networking?

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I've been struggling with two routers I have with two hubs in between. I've
got it so the two computers on one hub/router and the 3 computers on another
hub/router can get to the internet using the one cable modem. By using the
series of uplink ports between all the routers and hubs.

Problem is, I can't see the two groups of computers in the network
neighborhood. I feel like I'm real close since all machines can get on the
internet and DHCP is even working as well as wireless with the wireless
router.

I don't have the luxury of connecting the two routers directly too each
other in this case, so I have the hubs uplinked to each other which both
then go to the routers and then the one router goes to the cable modem.


Is there a quick fix to allow the two groups/routers to see each other in
the windows network neighborhood? Or am I going to have to get into some
static or dynamic routing? I played with that a bit but would lose one
router's connection completely or had other problems.

So right now I have:

cable modem --> router A --> hub --> hub --> router B

router A is the gateway and router B is simply configured to have a static
IP and uses the IP of router A as the gateway.

router A: 192.168.1.1
router B: 192.168.1.2
both use subnet: 255.255.255.0


Anything I'm missing or something else I can apply to allow the two to allow
windows networking?

Thanks in advance!
 
.--. .--.
|A1| |B2|
'--' '--'
| |
Pub IP __ 192.168.1.1 | | 192.168.1.2 __ Unknown
| | .--. .--. | |
|Cmodem|<~~~~ |R1|<----------->|H1|<-->|H2|<------------>|R2|
|__| '--' '--' |__|
| |
| |
.--. .--.
|A2| |B2|
'--' '--'

Ok, this is how i see your network from what you have described, but i
can't go ahead and comment or help unless I know how the hosts are
connected up to the routers and which DHCP server they acquire their
leases from. It seems that you may have unnecessarily made your life a
bit harder this way (but, let's see from your feedback).

IS 192.168.1.2 the Public/WAN/External IP address of R2? If so, what is
the internal IP address of it and the hosts connected to it? Is it
participating in DHCP too for its network?
 
Ok someone on another group helped me out. I figured it out. So for the
record:

I had to disconnect the WAN cable from router B and turn off DHCP and just
used the ports on that router. Then enabled DHCP on router A and all is
working fine now, networking and internet between both groups.
 
And just as additional information...

The purpose of a router is to segment networks and ROUTE traffic (no, not
all traffic) between them. You have both routers in the same network and
same subnet. It seems that you are using the wrong equipment for what you
are trying to do. If this gets any more complicated or you ever need to
host anything, you will NEED to redesign.
 
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