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
