2 routers on same network

[RevDrew]

Hi, I have a different setup here, I'm hoping someone can shed some light on my problem.

I am using an ISP provided DSL modem with integrated router / wireless.
It is set to use 192.168.2.* as it's default, I also have an ASUS RT-N16 with RMerlin firmware 374.40

It says it's online BUT, I want to use it beside the ISP router, meaning I want it to be on the same network 192.168.2.*. I have the LAN side configured as such and can access it easy enough, it wants the WAN side to be different, I can't install Entware, I get this message

wget: bad address 'wl500g-repo.googlecode.com'
sh: can't open './entware_install.sh'

It wants to set the WAN at 192.168.3.4, the LAN side is 192.168.2.4

When I go into SmartSync it says it's online (2TB drive hooked up for storage and streaming media, that's a problem for another day) I have files in the "MySyncFolder" folder but they don't show up online in my storage account.


I hope that's clear as mud, any way I can get this to do what I want it to?
I had it working okay with DD-WRT but that has to many features and buttons so I wanted to try RMerlin's since I am familiar with his work on the WDTV Web Frontend and I prefer the interface to DD-WRT.

Thanks.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Why not set the WAN different for Entware install and when your done figure out the rest?

 

[RMerlin]

Many of the features such as SmartSync will require the router to be fronting your WAN. To have it "side-by-side" with your ISP's router, you would have to either set it in a double NAT configuration (within a different subnet), or set it as an access point (and lose many of the built-in features).

I take it your ISP is VDSL-based? If it's ADSL2+, I'd recommend replacing their device with a plain bridged ADSL2+ modem.

 

[RevDrew]

with dd-wrt I could use the wan port as a lan port and everything worked the way I wanted it to, or t least the way I thought it should...

The main reason I want to connect it all this way is; streaming to the WDTV is connected to the ASUS, pretty much everything else is connected to the ISP router, that way the WDTV gets as much bandwidth as it needs / wants.

the RT-N16 will do B/G/N, the ISP is B/G only :/

Perhaps I should look at a newer dual band router and just use the ISP one as a passthrough.