I attempted this tonight, but I ran into a snag because the secondary router I tried to use, an old Belkin F5D7230-4 that I literally found in the basement, won't allow a LAN IP that isn't 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x (private only) I did try the setup anyway with the LAN and WAN port roles reversed, but it didn't work... most likely because of a default gateway issue.
If anyone has any suggestions for a cheap router that will allow a public IP in the LAN address slot, I'd love to hear it. Apparently this particular model can't run DD-WRT with both LAN and WAN ports active.... it's one or the other.
Also, I have a few MOCA boxes of my own, so I'll need for this new setup to still make those machines accessible to the internal LAN. (running MOCA for a few boxes that are hard to get CAT-5 to)
Thanks in advance for the help!
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