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On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:40:44 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: |
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> On 12/17/2012 08:00 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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>> On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:24:41 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter |
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>> wrote: |
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>>> On 12/17/2012 07:44 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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>>>> On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:09:16 AM IST, Kevin |
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>>>> Brandstatter wrote: |
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>>>>> On 12/17/2012 07:26 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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>>>>>> Hi, |
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>>>>>> I'm stuck with a routing issue: |
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>>>>>> I have a DD-WRT router, which has one WAN port and four |
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>>>>>> LAN ports with WiFi. |
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>>>>>> I have a fiber connection which is connected by dialing |
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>>>>>> PPPoE using pppd on the router, so I have no choice but to |
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>>>>>> connect the fiber connection on WAN port. |
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>>>>>> I have yet another (much slower) ADSL link, with it's own |
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>>>>>> router (LAN-only). I'm trying to connect the router to the |
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>>>>>> DD-WRT router's LAN port. I'm able to access the router, |
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>>>>>> but routing through the gateway (the ADSL router) fails. |
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>>>>>> Here's a simple diagram: |
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>>>>>> The LAN network I'm using on DDWRT is 192.168.0.0, which |
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>>>>>> is the LAN network for the internal side and WiFi. |
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>>>>>> The fiber connection is obviously public network. |
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>>>>>> The other ADSL connection can be configured to change |
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>>>>>> subnet, it has a LAN side and WAN side. |
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>>>>>> How I can I route through the ADSL router without requiring |
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>>>>>> a separate NIC/network for it? |
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>>>>> what exactly are you trying to route? traffic out to the |
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>>>>> internet over the ADSL? or just trying to connect the |
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>>>>> machines on that router to the fiber line and route all |
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>>>>> traffic from both out on the fiber? |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> -Kevin |
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>>>> Actually my fiber connection has a smaller limit than the ADSL |
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>>>> connection. I am trying to use the fiber connection for all |
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>>>> activities except some torrent downloading for which I want to |
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>>>> use my ADSL connection. Once I'm able to route through the |
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>>>> ADSL gateway, it would be easy for me to setup another ip on |
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>>>> eth0 on my machine on which transmission could listen. All |
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>>>> traffic on that ip would be routed through ADSL and otherwise |
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>>>> the fiber. |
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>>>> -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com |
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>>> well in that case if you know how to set it up so that the |
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>>> dd-wrt router can see the ADSL gateway you can set a route on |
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>>> your box to route traffic on a specific device to that gateway. |
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>>> In fact, you might even be able to static route the torrent ports |
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>>> to that gateway from dd-wrt |
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>>> -Kevin |
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>> I tried that. As the simplest test, I added this on ddwrt: |
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>> route add -host 8.8.8.8 gw 192.168.0.32 |
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>> Where 192.168.0.32 is the private IP of my ADSL router. But when I |
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>> say ping 8.8.8.8 from ddwrt, I don't get any response. Any idea why |
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>> this happens? |
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>> -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com |
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> is the ADSL configured to forward to the internet? how is the gateway |
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> set up? it needs to be configured to route the outbound traffic to the |
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> internet |
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> -Kevin |
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Yes, I have a static IP on the ADSL connection and it is setup for the |
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same. Connects using MER and NAT is enabled. |
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If I connect the router to DD-WRT's WAN port and change subnet of the |
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ADSL private network (matching the same on WAN interface), then it |
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works properly. |
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Nilesh Govindarajan |
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http://nileshgr.com |