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Dear TomatoUSB community,

I have an ASUS N66U router running Tomato firmware. I have a Ethernet cable running from the wan port into a switch and a Ethernet cable running from the switch into an adsl modem. It connects to the internet perfectly if you connect to it via wireless. I would like the internet to be shared to the switch as well, which means the WAN port needs to act as a LAN as well. Is this possible?

The reason for only using one cable is the router is quite a distance away from the adsl modem, and I would need to run a new cable or get a switch right by the wireless router.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

The configuration you described would be useful if your adsl modem supplied two or more publicly-routable static IP addresses in a bridged configuration: you could use one publicly-routable static IP address for your ASUS router, and another publicly-routable static IP address for some other device. But I am guessing that is not your configuration, right?

So instead of putting a switch between the adsl modem and your router, why not use a wired broadband router? This would provide NAT to support your ASUS router and the other devices that you plug into the wired broadband router.

You would probably set your ASUS router's WAN port to obtain its address by DHCP from the wired broadband router.