Modem Router + WRT54G?

Hello,

I'm running into troubles trying to get this working.

Before I got my WRT54G, i just connect my computer to the modem router (plexuscom acc200 - it only has one ethernet port) and then i can go on the net. Then i used xp's icf to share it with the rest of the pc's on the network. But the problem is that my pc has to be on for the other computers to go online.

So now i bought the wrt54g! I plugged my computer into one of the 4 LAN port holes on the wrt54g and the modem router in another, leaving the internet/wan port empty (I set the wrt54g and modem router to differnet ips). I can now access both routers using web browser. But my gateway has to be set to the modem router to go on the net!! If I set it to the wrt54g it doesn't work!

What I want to achieve is to use wrt54g as a gateway, since I want to use the better firewall on the wrt54g. Is this possible?

Thanks

Unfortunately, what you are asking is not possible, you must always set the gateway to the machine connected to the internet (inthis case the router)...

I dont know,but i am guessing that if you plug the router into the WAN port, and set it up that way, it will all be passed through the firewall regardless of your getway setting, the WRT isnt designed to be a gateway.

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But the problem is that I can't access the modem router by browser if i plug it into the WAN port...

The WAN port is firewalled.Check the settings for both the firwall and the access permissions for the internet oin the WRT. There is a pager tere you can enter MAaddresses to allow access to this port.

I have been using a similar setup wrt54gs and a conexant dsl router (single port). Set the wrt up with "auto configuration - DHCP" or something like that in the router config part. then on the lan part have it set to "dhcp server enabled" or "assign dhcp" or whatever it is (its not in front of me to check the exact wording). Theoretically what should happen is the dsl router will assign the "WAN" side of the wrt with an ip address, making it part of the dsl routers network, then the wrt will assign your pc (wether connected wirelessly or wired) an ip address, making i tpart of it's network. What you need to make sure is that the dsl router is also assigning ip addresses via dhcp , and that the 2 routers are on different networks (example 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.1.0, 255.255.255.0 subnet mask for both) I would set the dis way, whn you want to access sl router to 192.168.0.1 , and the wrt to 192.168.1.1. This way when you want to access the dsl router from your pc, the wrt router knows it's not in it's local subnet so will forward the request out of the wan port to the gateway on the wan side, which is the dsl router.

You may need to disable the firewall etc on the wrt initially, which will give you one less possibility of something not working. I would also disable any wireless security temporarily to also remove another possible problem.

If anyone sees an error in what ive said, or wants to add to this, feel free

btw I think the reason you couldnt access the dsl router before was that you probably had them on the same network, although different ip's (example 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 - they are both different ip's but the same subnet). this would mean the WRT would have sent the request out to it's local network expecting to find it on the LAN side of things, as it's logically on the same network, even though physicaslly it isnt).

wow thanks boowhup!! That works!!

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