I don't see a way to turn off the router's firewall completely. I dug out the old laptop I mentioned earlier, but it's so old it doesn't have an ethernet connection. I had to put together a system that was over in the corner, waiting for a friend to pick up. I was avoiding touching that one because it was already all set up and I didn't want to mess with the network settings -- and it would also mean moving other parts of my setup into another room.
I hooked that computer up, giving it the address of 10.0.0.201, just like with the SB. From there I tried and could ping 10.0.0.201 (itself) and 10.0.0.101 (the WAN interface). I cannot ping ANYTHING on the 172.16.7.xxx LAN at all from the computer at 10.0.0.201. I tried traceroute to 10.0.0.101 and it took about 15 seconds or longer to report back a single hop. I tried it on another computer and traceroute, for one hop, took only about 5 seconds. (But that was a quad core computer...) >From the 10.0.0.201 computer I ping'ed 10.0.0.5 and got a timeout message from ping. When I pinged anything out of the 10.xxx.xxx.xxx range, there was no response or action at all. No report back that it was out of range or there was no route to the host or anything -- it just hung there, and in one case I let it sit for 15 minutes. I think this definitely shows the issue is the router. The computer does see it as a gateway, as it needs to, but the router is not forwarding anything as it should. (And that seems to raise the question of how it works on the LAN side, but I can ping it, ssh to it, and use the web interface from the LAN side, so it does communicate there -- just no communication between WAN and LAN within the router. I tried to get some kind of verification on what I need to do to be sure all the variables in NVRAM in the router were reset, but getting answers on the OpenWRT board is slow. So this puts it out of the SB/Slimdevices court and definitely in the OpenWRT area, but if anyone here knows enough about firewalls and such, I would still appreciate their help. This is not an area I know well. I've spent years programming, but rarely have had to deal with issues like this. Thanks for any thoughts and for the help and suggestions that have already been offered! -- HalNineThousand ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HalNineThousand's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12392 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62565 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
