Configuring WRT54 as a switch (configure WAN port as a LAN port)

I've had a wired BEFSR41 Linksys router for a while now and just bought
a WRT54G wireless router today. I bought it because I wanted wireless
and to get more LAN ports on my home network. I currently have the
wireless router setup as a wireless switch by not using the WAN port
and connecting a LAN port on it to a LAN port on the wired router with
a crossover cable.

What I want to know is if its possible to configure the WAN port on my
wireless router as another LAN port instead giving me an extra port to
use in the future. I've tried using the WAN port on the wireless router
but obviously, NAT causes ploblems when trying to access any of the
computers on the wireless router from the wired router since they are
virtually located on different networks as far as the wireless router
is concerned. It doesn't really matter if the WAN port can't be
converted directly to LAN but any combination of settings that will
allow me to create 1 unified/unrestricted network in the same way a
switch would do.

BTW, I am using the DD-WRT third-party firmware.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

On 15 Nov 2005 13:42:09 -0800, "Phil" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>What I want to know is if its possible to configure the WAN port on my
>wireless router as another LAN port instead giving me an extra port to
>use in the future.
(...)
>BTW, I am using the DD-WRT third-party firmware.

RTFM:
http://wrt-wiki.bsr-clan.de/index.php?title=WAN_Port

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