I think this is what you want to do?
Code:
ISP ISP
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R1 --fibre-- R2
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LAN1 LAN2
but R1 and R2 are not (afaict) actually 3-port routers - they only have 2 IPs - one for the WAN and one for the internal eth port connected to the presented 'switch ports'.
I'd buy 2 more super simple routers and do:
Yes, you are correct, they each have only two interfaces. I was planning to ultimately do this:
ISP ISP
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R1 R2
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LAN1--R3--fiber-- LAN2
R3 would handle the static routes to LAN 1 and LAN2. Shouldn't this work with proper static routing? My present setup uses only 2 routers to sort out the static routing issues. It looks like this:
ISP
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R1
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LAN1--R2--LAN2
R1 has static route 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.2. This allows traffic on LAN1 to reach LAN2. I have not found a way to get traffic on LAN2 to reach LAN1 which I would very much like to get working before I try something more elaborate.
Thanks for your help!
Stu