Tomato Firmware: unable to see internet from laptop, can see LAN

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I know this isnt a Tomato firmware forum, but I'll post it anyway in case somebody has any knowledge they would like to share with me. :)

I am trying to set up my buffalo with the latest Tomato, and everything seems to work fine, expect I am unable to go out on the internet from anything routing through the buffalo.

My setup is as follows:

adsl -> netgear router -> powerline homeplug -> buffalo AP -> laptop (wired or wireless).

Some pointers:
* The netgear ADSL router is on 10.0.0.X where as the buffalo is on 192.16.8.1.x..
* The ethernet cable from netgear router is coming in on WAP port (tried LAN port, but even less success then)
* I can ping internet and local machines from tomato GUI
* I can ping all internal machines (10.0.0.x) from laptop
* I can ping buffalo AP on WAN IP (10.0.0.x) from server (on another homeplug)
* I have tried assigning LAN ips on 10.0.0.x aswell but it didnt like it at all then

Do you think the problem is something on the netgear router? Or do I need to do something on the buffalo in order for it to work?
 
Ok so you LAN is working?

does the router get an external IP - either static or dynamic?

where is your DNS pointing?
 
mynsa said:
Ok so you LAN is working?

does the router get an external IP - either static or dynamic?

where is your DNS pointing?
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Yes, LAN appears to be working fine.

I am pretty sure I have tried both static and dynamic IPs for the router (WAN).
(edit: this is the buffalo AP)

I am not at home now, but the DNS has been left as default (0.0.0.0, I think). DNS works fine when ping'ing a domain on the AP (ping comes back fine).

I think the first question to get an answer to is which port should I connect the existing network to? LAN or WAN? I got far better results (as in LAN seemed to work better) when connecting the existing network on the WAN port, but I then ended up with an IP address of 10.0.0.X on the WAN port, and 192.168.1.X (so, two different ranges) on the LAN ports. If I changed the LAN ip to 10.0.0.x it would mess it up completely and I had to reset the buffalo.

I would like the IPs off the buffalo AP to be in the same range as the existing LAN, if possible.
 
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to get the same range, plug in in the LAN port, they are a switch, remember to turn off dhcp so only one device is handing out IP addresses
 
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mynsa: thanks, changing port, disabling the WAN port and disabling the DHCP server seems to have done the trick. :)
 
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