TomatoUSB

Hi,

First of all, thanks you for all your work and effort in creating TomatoUSB and a great community.

I might be trying to solve the impossible but i havent found anything that confirms it by seraching this forum and the web.

My challenge

1. I have a IPTV box in need of Public IP(Dedicated VLAN from ISP) to actually work. Port forwarding is not an option.
2. As many others I have distance between TV and wall socket.
3. As many others I want to make my Installations as clean as possible.
4. As many others i have a Wife that would prefer as little cables as possible.

My units

• Asus RT N66U using 1.28.0000 MIPSR2-116 K26AC USB AIO-64K
• Asus RT N16 using 1.28.0000 MIPSR2-115 K26 USB AIO
• IPTV box from service provider
• 2x Raspberry PI with OpenElec and XMBC (only use one atm)
• LG N2R1 Using Thantalus Firmware 2647 1.0.0t
• Some mobile devices and laptops using Wifi

Requirements

1. ISP Public IP is given by DHCP
2. IPTV Box need external IP
3. Some WIFI within LAN and DHCP
4. Some LAN ports on both locations WAN and TV so that Raspberry and TV(otpional) can access NAS.

Options?

1. Is it possible to give public IP to IPTV Box connected using LAN port to Access point router over WDS?
2. Other similar solution as above user some Tomato features?
3. Use ethernet over power solution?

Network Diagrams
I've created 3 network diagrams trying to explain:

1. My old setup where IPTV worked behind one router. TV was located close to wall socket. Could work now but then i have long ugly ethernet cable and would need NAS close or over wifi(slower)
2. My preferred solution
3. Bad option that would need even more hardware.

See them here:
<not allowed as i am now and have low-karma>

Or download pdf here:
<not allowed as i am now and have low-karma>

I dont understand all possibilities with Tomato and hope that ive missed something. Think others have the same problem and would like some feedback and tips on solutions.

Thanks in advance.

Is it possible to give public IP to IPTV Box connected using LAN port to Access point router over WDS?

Yes it is, but how does the rest of the LAN get internet ? Does your ISP provide service on two physical ports ?

Sorry missed that out as i have drawn it in the network diagrams im not able to share. Can anyone please give me rights to post them or give any tip how i can go around it?

No i only have one physical port.
Previously i did it by adding one lan port(the one that IPTV box was connected to) to the same VLAN as wan port. But now as i moved my tv i added secondary router using WDS hoping that i would solve it on my own. Guess i need another approach now.

So one WAN in only. IPTV Box is connected to a lan port on access point. I would like all other units in same LAN, wifi or by cable to either of the two routers.

The setup with WDS is up and running, "only" thing missing is the Public ip to IPTV box.

A WDS linked pair of Tomato radios is effectively the same as a long CAT5 jumper. Connect accordingly. If it worked before somehow then your hardware should not realize that a jumper was replaced with a pair of radios.

Here are your links. Nice artwork ;
https://www.lucidchart.com/documents/view/4f7e-3e28-53099e97-b05a-24e70a0055ba

https://www.lucidchart.com/publicSegments/view/5309bceb-a138-45c2-b3cc-78540a0055ba

See if my comments above were helpful. My head hurts too much right now to read your diagrams.

Okey, thanks.

I get stuck where i previously put LAN port on same VLAN as WAN. Cause of the current setup the LAN port I want to us is on the other router.
There is some trunk functionality that i have been unable to understand how to use. Will this be the solution?

Features i consider but have to low understanding of is:
802.1Q trunk
Tagging
VID
Virtual Wireless

As i still want other units on same lan im considering a virtual wireless or trunk some how. Sorry, but this is where i get stucked.

Thanks once more for your time.

My old setup where IPTV worked behind one router. TV was located close to wall socket. Could work now but then i have long ugly ethernet cable and would need NAS close or over wifi(slower)

OK, I read your diagram. Not too bad. I think I see where the snag might be. When you link two radios together using WDS, the wireless bridge becomes layer 2 transparent. When your system was working as quoted above, you were placing the WAN and LAN4 into VLAN2. Now you need to change VLAN2 to have the WAN and Wireless adaptors, and drop LAN4. Then anything you connect physically to a LAN port of the Client WDS radio would be in VLAN2 and should pull a public IP.

If you get into routing problems and it does not seem to work then another solution would be to add a 3rd radio. You can leave the primary router configured and functioning as is. Then use Radio #2 and #3 to form their own dedicated WDS bridge. Radio #2 would connect to main router LAN4 with a cat5 jumper. It is WDS bridged to radio #3 which is subsequently wired to the IPTV box, thereby delivering VLAN2 from LAN 4 to the wireless location.

I cant find any option to achive " Now you need to change VLAN2 to have the WAN and Wireless adaptors, and drop LAN4." cause the Wireless adaptors is not available to be added to a VLAN as i understand. Can you please give some more guidence and be more precise?

Thanks!

Let me get a couple of radios flashed with V16 firmware. I'm in the middle of a work rush so it might be a couple of days.

Much appreciated, take your time!

Bump.

Would very much appreciate guidance from anyone.

Thanks!