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  1. takeawaydave

    RT-AC66U & Firewall question

    When I connect my laptop and other home machines to the wireless network running off the rt-ac66u get 2 problems:> >1. The Skype Home Page is unavailable> >Error: "Skype Home unavailable"> >2. The Spotify Web Player doesn't load> >Message appears on browser: "Connecting to Spotify"> >If I...
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    Wireless lockup problems

    Thanks Merlin - That was a great help and I enabled the 80211d broadcast for w0 and no problems have yet arisen. I was also having a drop between my Linksys AC wumc710 bridge and rt-acc66u so I have also enabled on w1 to see whether there was the same root cause here.
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    Wireless lockup problems

    Last post I made was rubbish nothing to do with dnsmasq. Looks to be more like the wireless settings. Most wireless clients (ipad, 2 x iphones) are ok, mac pro and macbook giving same wireless trouble through. I have connected macbook to the router using an ethernet cable and i have a fast...
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    Wireless lockup problems

    Seems to be a problem with dnsmasq. When I reconfigure the local laptop NIC away from dhcp by giving a static address and DNS as a fixed 8.8.8.8 the internet connection resumes. any ideas what could cause this ? otherwise it's back to using a localhosts file.
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    Wireless lockup problems

    Hi been encountering a problem where my laptop as well as desktop start to not be able to access the network and rebooting my rt-ac66u (with 3.0.0.4.372.30_2) appears to solve the problem. Not sure what its related to nor how to proceed in narrowing down the problem. symptoms are varying: 1...
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    Local DNS

    AHA - Thanks both of you ! Thats fixed things nicely. One further thing how do I change the DHCP Reservations over the command line ? I thought it was /etc/hosts.dnsmasq however these aren't persistent. :)
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    Local DNS

    Any one able to help here ? Pretty stuck unable to use dnsmasq dns. I have INTERNET ||FIBRE ROUTER 192.168.1.254...
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    Local DNS

    Hi - first of all many thanks for the custom firmware - just upgraded to the latest beta release 354.29-BETA1 this evening and is going smoothly. Having some trouble setting up local DNS using DNSmasq set up the jffs config script dnsmasq.config.add and getting the dnsmasq entries popped back...
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    Now what should I do ?

    No doesn't appear to be possible since is running in bridging mode.
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    Now what should I do ?

    Here goes first post and here's the setup: 1. Linksys E4500 (DDWRT) in the corner of the room This is wirelessly bridged to: 2. Thomson Fibre Modem TWG870UG as in this one: http://www.upc.ie/pdf/twg870-e.pdf I have a NetGear ReadyNas NV+ wired in to the E4500 and various wireless...
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