On Tue, 27 May 2008 16:19:53 +0100 Jonathan McDowell noodles@earth.li allegedly wrote:
So you DHCP through the NAT? Interesting.
Actually no. The DHCP server is on the same internal .10.0 lan as the rest of my network. The DMZ .1.0 net has fixed IP addresses.
If you are finding that 2 hosts connected to the wired switch on the ASUS are seeing errors talking to each other I'd be suspecting an electrical fault with the ASUS. There shouldn't be any software involvement there once the switch chip is configured to bridge the various ports appropriately.
You are probably right. I bought the Asus second hand from a bloke on Amazon (they don't seem to be available any more and the WRTSL54Gs are equally difficult to source). I tested it with a laptop (wired and wireless) before reflashing and it all seemed OK. But of course I did not connect multiple wires until after reflashing. So I have no idea whether it was faulty before. Oh well.
Anyone got another ASUS WL500GD they don't want? Or a Linksys WRTSL54GS?
(I've had a wl500g myself in the past, running vanilla OpenWRT though not bridging the wired/wireless networks and never saw a similar problem.)
So what did you do? Disable the wireless? Or put it on a separate VLAN with a different subnet?
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