Hi folks,
I'm in need of help with getting my wan to lan connection to work correctly.
I set up a test server environment in my LAN and want to segment that traffic away from my normal LAN environment so any changes made within that network will not have any affect on the other machines and devices outside of the testing network.
to do this, I'm using two routers: the one that verizon supplied to me (actiontec MI424WR-GEN3I) for my normal LAN and then a linksys wrt54g flashed with tomato firmware for my test LAN.
I followed this guide. while it partially works, it doesn't fully work as it should - at least not for me.
here's my LAN subnet and subnet masks;
Normal LAN:
192.168.1.X
255.255.255.0
Test LAN:
192.168.2.X
255.255.255.0
I assigned a static IP on my 1.X subnet for the router: 192.168.1.35. I also set up a static route from the 1.X network to the 2.X network.
with the set up mentioned in the guide linked above, the 2nd network works, but there's several things I'm unable to do.
1: I'm unable to ping from my 1.X network to my 2.X network, but I am able to ping from the 2.X network to my 1.X network.
2: when I change the routing mode on my 2.X network from gateway to router, it'll allow me to ping devices on my 2.X network from within the 1.X network, but only devices with a static IP, like the router and my server...I'm unable to ping 2 other devices that are assigned IPs from the DHCP server. further, when I set the mode from gateway to router, I'm no longer able to reach the internet from within my 2.X network until I switch the routing method back to gateway. I had thought setting a static route would of fixed this. from my understanding, the only way to turn off NAT on my 2.X network is to change the routing method from gateway to router.
what am I doing wrong? I'm guessing it's something silly in the actiontec router that needs to be changed.
here are a few screenshots of my configs from within the actiontec router;
static IP set for my 2nd router:
advanced filtering input/output options:
static route:
network objects I had set up to make the filtering easier:
