What are the protocols to hook a Xbox 360 to a router for a lan?

[ace2020boyd]

Im in a networking class at my High School and were trying to do this

Xbox360-------->switch--------->Router--------->Switch-----Xbox360

But we cant figure out what the protocols we need to tell the router. I think were using the Cisco 2500 series router

[Leo Laohoo]

X-Box talk TCP/IP (I think).  I hope your 2500 is not a Token Ring-only interface.  What switch do you have?  What are you gents trying to achieve? Do you want both X-Box to have different IP addresses (hence the presence of a router)?  Has anyone started with connecting the X-Box to the same switch and assigning each of them the same IP addresses from the same IP subnet?

[ace2020boyd]

well back in December we hooked 4 xboxs to a switch and we subneted everyone and it worked but last year a group of kids before us tried to have a router in between and they couldn't figure out why they weren't communicating

[Leo Laohoo]

Same 2500 router and different IP subnets?  Off the top of my head, the 2500 can't do Dot1Q trunking.

[ace2020boyd]

Im in class right now and i just checked the router its a 1700 series router.