Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 2:08 Post subject: Routing/DHCP issue
Ok, I have a D-Link 825 (I know, I hear a lot about D-Link all over the place but it was free) that I cannot get to work how I need it to.
I cannot get either routing or DHCP from the comcast router to work. Here is my setup. Comcast router -> D-Link 825 -> Wireless devices. My problem is that my comcast router give 10.0.0.X IP addresses. My D-Link, now running dd-wrt is giving out 192.168.1.X addresses. I cannot get anything connected my D-Link to see anything that has an IP from my comcast router. I have a media server on a 10.0.0.X IP address. All my wireless devices get a 192.168.1.X address that cannot see the media server.
I've tried setting DHCP to DHCP forwarding with my comcast router (10.0.0.1) as the DHCP server but when I do that I don't get an IP address. This D-Link router sucks, that's why I put dd-wrt on it. It would drop constantly. I just need to get the settings right so that I can connect to my D-Link wireless and get to my media server. I have an X-box 360 and PS3 that I use to watch movies on and when I connect to the D-Link they can't see the media server.
Last edited by nbucko on Wed Sep 24, 2014 15:52; edited 1 time in total
Thats the thing. The WAN port on my D-Link is already plugged into a LAN port on my Comcast router and when I disable DHCP it still doesn't assign an IP. Also, when I do that I am no longer able to access the router and plugging a cable into it doesn't assign an IP either. Should I re-flash?
Ok, something isn't right. Even after a reset of the D-Link and leaving all settings at default except DHCP (No security) I still get stuck at obtaining an IP.
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The simplest solution is to leave the modem as is, leave the router as is, and plug a cable from the modem lan to the router WAN port.
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