2 Asus Routers

[Covack]

Not sure if in right place to ask

New member here, sorry for long post, I've reset router now about 10 times and start again.
I have worked on this two days, all info on the net leads to this Forum, that has any thing even close.

I have two ax86u pro routers on latest factory firmware
I have one as my primary everything is fine, I want to setup 2nd router with surfshark vpn .
I've tried several configurations and watched youtube videos using the same router I have, its not working for me .
I have my primary on 192.168.1.1, i tried to give my 2nd router 192.168.1.2 static
I dont have vpn listed in menu,if I put it in access mode, so router mode is what Im trying.
I tried lan to lan and lan to wan, I put vpn on 2nd router , it never connects , not even changing servers works.
It looks like it trys to connect, but never does. I tried wiregard and openvpn same thing.
I also have disconneted dhcp on second router, tried it both ways. Tks for any help.

 

[ColinTaylor]

The router must be configured in "router mode" to be able to run the VPN client.

So you either run the VPN client on your primary (internet gateway) router, or on a secondary router with its WAN port connected to one of the primary router's LAN ports. With the second option you will be creating a completely separate network with a different IP address range, e.g. 192.168.2.x.

You cannot have two routers in "router mode" that share the same LAN IP address range.

 

[Covack]

I tried this, but couldn't get back to 2nd router with 192.168.2.1, because it is a different subnet
I read on here somewhere to do a route on primary to access 2nd router