On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:52:43 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:40:44 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: >> On 12/17/2012 08:00 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >>> On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:24:41 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter >>> wrote: >>>> On 12/17/2012 07:44 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >>>>> On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:09:16 AM IST, Kevin >>>>> Brandstatter wrote: >>>>>> On 12/17/2012 07:26 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm stuck with a routing issue: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have a DD-WRT router, which has one WAN port and four >>>>>>> LAN ports with WiFi. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have a fiber connection which is connected by dialing >>>>>>> PPPoE using pppd on the router, so I have no choice but to >>>>>>> connect the fiber connection on WAN port. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have yet another (much slower) ADSL link, with it's own >>>>>>> router (LAN-only). I'm trying to connect the router to the >>>>>>> DD-WRT router's LAN port. I'm able to access the router, >>>>>>> but routing through the gateway (the ADSL router) fails. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Here's a simple diagram: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The LAN network I'm using on DDWRT is 192.168.0.0, which >>>>>>> is the LAN network for the internal side and WiFi. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The fiber connection is obviously public network. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The other ADSL connection can be configured to change >>>>>>> subnet, it has a LAN side and WAN side. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> How I can I route through the ADSL router without requiring >>>>>>> a separate NIC/network for it? >>>>>>> >>>>>> what exactly are you trying to route? traffic out to the >>>>>> internet over the ADSL? or just trying to connect the >>>>>> machines on that router to the fiber line and route all >>>>>> traffic from both out on the fiber? >>>>>> >>>>>> -Kevin >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Actually my fiber connection has a smaller limit than the ADSL >>>>> connection. I am trying to use the fiber connection for all >>>>> activities except some torrent downloading for which I want to >>>>> use my ADSL connection. Once I'm able to route through the >>>>> ADSL gateway, it would be easy for me to setup another ip on >>>>> eth0 on my machine on which transmission could listen. All >>>>> traffic on that ip would be routed through ADSL and otherwise >>>>> the fiber. >>>>> >>>>> -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com >>>>> >>>> well in that case if you know how to set it up so that the >>>> dd-wrt router can see the ADSL gateway you can set a route on >>>> your box to route traffic on a specific device to that gateway. >>>> In fact, you might even be able to static route the torrent ports >>>> to that gateway from dd-wrt >>>> >>>> -Kevin >>> >>> >>> I tried that. As the simplest test, I added this on ddwrt: >>> >>> route add -host 8.8.8.8 gw 192.168.0.32 >>> >>> Where 192.168.0.32 is the private IP of my ADSL router. But when I >>> say ping 8.8.8.8 from ddwrt, I don't get any response. Any idea why >>> this happens? >>> >>> -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com >>> >> is the ADSL configured to forward to the internet? how is the gateway >> set up? it needs to be configured to route the outbound traffic to the >> internet >> >> -Kevin > > Yes, I have a static IP on the ADSL connection and it is setup for the > same. Connects using MER and NAT is enabled. > If I connect the router to DD-WRT's WAN port and change subnet of the > ADSL private network (matching the same on WAN interface), then it > works properly. > > -- > Nilesh Govindarajan > http://nileshgr.com
Wait, it just worked. Looks like I missed out something yesterday. Thanks for your help. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
