Two Routers - 1 Port Straight to First Router

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Published on 2014-08-18T16:24:43Z Indexed on 2014/08/18 16:30 UTC
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At my house we have two Wifi routers one's connected directly to the modem and the other is plugged in down stairs as a second network(Directly connected to the first router) Is there a way that I could make it so that I have the second router have its own network, but have one or two ports that would act as if they were directly connected to the first router? That way I can port forward to devices on the second router. Here are the information about the routers:

Router 1 - Linksys WRT54G Running stock firmware

Router 2 - Linksys E900 Running Tomato Firmware

So to summarize what I'm asking is how would I have two networks from two routers but be able to connect directly to the first router through one of the ports on the second router.

Here's a Visio Drawing of what I would like to look like enter image description here

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