Cascading SOHO Router with Cisco Router

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I'm trying to set up a home lab so that I can practice cisco commands on a real router. I want to be able to access the router from anywhere on my home network but not have it be a critical part of the network.

What I want to do is have my primary router which is a d-link be supporting the network and one of the lan ports from that runs to FE 0/0 on the 1841 that I have. Then, FE 0/1 goes to a 2950 switch where I can plug in "client pc's."

So far I have FE 0/0 set up as 192.168.0.2 (the dlink is 192.168.0.1).

How do I configure FE 0/1 so that my a machine using the dlink can see a machine running behind the 1841?

Thanks
 
Its not the configuration on the cisco that matters so much, its the configuration on the DLINK. Your DLINK will either need to support manually added static routes, or a routing protocol like RIP. Otherwise it will never route traffic destined for the second network off of F0/1.

With that being said you can still ssh/telnet to the cisco and configure it via the IP on F0/0. So you can do some configuration practice.
 
yeah, just set up a static route on the DLINK to point to 192.168.0.2 and make sure the cisco's default gateway is the DLINK (192.168.0.1)
 
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This is pretty much how my home network is setup for now (excuse the not so great drawing)

192.168.0.1 for the dlink router, 192.168.0.2 for "wan" interface on the cisco 2621, Fe0/2 on the 2621 is now set as 10.0.0.1

dlink-->cisco 2621-->cisco 2950 -->clients
 
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