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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
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