Accessing a router behind a router?

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Talonz

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Hi all,

I have a wireless router (WRT54GS running Tomato) connected to a wired router (BEFSR81) which connects the whole house to the internet.

I am trying to access BEFSR's admin page while connected to the WRT54GS. The BEFSR page should be 192.168.1.1 and the WRT54GS's page is 192.168.1.199

Both pages work when I connect the computer directly, but I cannot access the BEFSR's page when connected to WRT54GS, even though they have separate IP addresses.

Here are my settings on the WRT54GS:

WAN
Connection Type DHCP
IP Address 192.168.1.107
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.1

LAN
Router IP Address 192.168.1.199
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0

Current Routing Table
Destination Gateway Subnet Mask Metric Interface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 0 br0 (LAN)
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 0 vlan1 (WAN)
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 0 lo
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 0 vlan1 (WAN)

DHCP Server
Start 192.168.1.149
End 192.168.1.199

Anyone have any idea on how I can get access to 192.168.1.1 which is my gateway and the page I want to get to?

Thanks!
 
The WRT54GS is set to AP mode right? As in it's not assigning IP addresses?

Anyway, something to check is most router software has an option to refuse connections to the router from the external IP. Pretty much to prevent hackers from messing with your router via the internet. Check to see if something like this is causing your problems.
 
The WRT54GS is not set to AP mode, it's running a DHCP server from .149-.199 in order not to conflict with the wired router. From the WRT54GS firmware, I am unable to ping 192.168.1.1 (the wired router).

I was unable to get anything working if I didn't have the WRT54GS set to assign IP addresses.
 
Okay, if they are both going to be dishing out IPs, they need to be on different logical networks. Make one 192.168.0.XXX so that the two stop conflicting with each other in address translation.
 
Make life simple and don't shoot your network performance in the foot by double NAT'ing. Just flip the wireless unit to access point mode.
 
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