spartan77777
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I had an unmodified NetGear 3700 for a while and functions without problems although I hate the inteface with a passion. I was using HMA on the PC as I needed and it was always a bit of a headache to remember to enable. Decided to go with a VPN on the router approach and got myself a RT-N66U and flashed it with merlin. Managed to get OpenVPN functioning after some effort. The way it is configured at the moment is:
Modem <--> RT-N66U router <---> NetGear 3700 router <--> switch<--> PC(s)
I am running RT-N66U with 192.168.1.x and NetGear with 192.168.0.x.
I have wireless and DHCM enabled on both routers. I have not modified a single thing on existing NetGear 3700 and basically just added RT-N66U ahead of it. So, my model feeds into WAN port of RT-N66U and NEtGear 3700 WAN port is wired to the LAN port of RT-N66U. I am getting the following results:
- If I use the wireless connection offered by RT-N66U I have normal internet access but can't see my NAS, other PCs and printers on my existing network (as expected) due to their presence on a different subnet. My OpenVPN is full time engaged without problems.
- If I use the wireless or wired connection offfered by NetGear 3700 I have my odl existing completely functionality with access to everything and all my connections are going over OpenVPN of RT-N66U maintaining OpenVPN use. No issues what so ever.
What is also a bit odd to me, I can get to either router web gui without problems although they are on different subnets. I have kept my subnet mask on both routers same as before 255.255.255.0 and clients are all set to get all from router.
So, finally my question, is this normal. I am not planning to stay in this setup long term and slowly migrate things from NEtGear onto RT-N66U. So, this was purely experimental but I am very surprised how everything worked without a hickup. I don't quite get how I can access both subnets through the old router's connection. Thanks.
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Modem <--> RT-N66U router <---> NetGear 3700 router <--> switch<--> PC(s)
I am running RT-N66U with 192.168.1.x and NetGear with 192.168.0.x.
I have wireless and DHCM enabled on both routers. I have not modified a single thing on existing NetGear 3700 and basically just added RT-N66U ahead of it. So, my model feeds into WAN port of RT-N66U and NEtGear 3700 WAN port is wired to the LAN port of RT-N66U. I am getting the following results:
- If I use the wireless connection offered by RT-N66U I have normal internet access but can't see my NAS, other PCs and printers on my existing network (as expected) due to their presence on a different subnet. My OpenVPN is full time engaged without problems.
- If I use the wireless or wired connection offfered by NetGear 3700 I have my odl existing completely functionality with access to everything and all my connections are going over OpenVPN of RT-N66U maintaining OpenVPN use. No issues what so ever.
What is also a bit odd to me, I can get to either router web gui without problems although they are on different subnets. I have kept my subnet mask on both routers same as before 255.255.255.0 and clients are all set to get all from router.
So, finally my question, is this normal. I am not planning to stay in this setup long term and slowly migrate things from NEtGear onto RT-N66U. So, this was purely experimental but I am very surprised how everything worked without a hickup. I don't quite get how I can access both subnets through the old router's connection. Thanks.
Is there something wrong with this picture.