Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 13:28 Post subject: Trying to allow google wifi clients to see DD-WRT Router
I bought the google wifi system a couple of years ago so tht it would cover my large yard and 3 story house. I love its range but not its lack of advanced features. I know other products have more features but I can't justify spending hundreds of dollars on this right now.
I'd like to have the google wifi clients be able to access clients on my DDWRT network. I do not want to put either router into bridge mode. I did try putting the google wifi router first in my setup but it would not pass ports (many people had this problem).
So I have a DDWRT router (.1.1) connected to my ISP modem. I have my google wifi (.2.1) connected to this network. I don't seem to have any double nat issues as I am able to pass ports through to DDWRT. Anyway, is there a way to allow clients on wifi to access clients on DDWRT? I've seen guides mention static routes: https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=323948 - would the last entry in that thread do the trick? I don't have a ton of knowledge in this area. Thank you so much for your time!
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 15:57 Post subject:
Your build is rather old and has already some security issues so you might want to consider upgrading (see the forum rules how, where. what )
So your DDWRT router is connected to the internet and the Google router is connected with its WAN to the LAN of the DDWRT and each on its own subnet right?
If that is not possible then leave it as it is you can have access from and to both networks but only when using the IP address of the clients.
So no network discovery for media servers etc.
Usually you should have access from downstream (i.e. Google) to upstream, so connected to your Google network you should be able to see the router at 192.168.1.1.
A little more information - we are extremely limited in what we can do with google wifi. I can't even do something like disable dhcp.
So you are right - I can ping items on one network from the other one. Media discovery isn't a huge deal for me because most of my media is on the wired network and consumed on the same network. I don't know how far I want to go with this for little gain. I did some poking around to see if I can take it to the next step but I am not sure that I fully understood if they would work for me. Adding another router in front of both routers and let that be the master? I think at the end of the day I am limited with google wifi because it wants to be the only router and is limited in terms of functionality.
Joined: 18 Mar 2014 Posts: 12877 Location: Netherlands
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 13:45 Post subject:
To get access from the upstream (DDWRT) network to Googles subnet see the attached document.
Setting the static route on the DDWRT router is easy, but you also have to disable the firewall on the Google stuff or at least allow access with iptables as described.
To get access from the upstream (DDWRT) network to Googles subnet see the attached document.
Setting the static route on the DDWRT router is easy, but you also have to disable the firewall on the Google stuff or at least allow access with iptables as described.
P.S. I would expect that googles router also should be able to work as WAP so on the same subnet attached LAN<>LAN
Thanks again! I meant to ask you - to which link are you referring?
I don't have the option to disable the google firewall or do any kind of advanced routing. I can turn it off and make it just an access point but I'd lose the mesh capability. Would this be an issue?
The easiest way is just leave router 2 in gateway mode.
Sorry, I finally had a few minutes to fully consume this.
The problem I have is that I can't do hardly any of the items under "Router 2 Configuration". There is no place to add firewall rules in google router. Am I out of luck?
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