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thewanderingv

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#147082 8-Jun-2014 17:28
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Hi everyone,

I'm having a bit of a dumb moment here, where I'm struggling to deploy the following set up in my house:


1. I have a primary router, an Asus RT-AC66U (running modified Merlin FW), connected to a Vodafone (old TCL) Cable box, with Vodafone DNS settings.

2. I now want to connect a secondary router, a Cisco E4200 (running modified Tomato FW) to the AC66U, so that I can plug in my Roku 3 and Chromecast to UnoTelly but:

 


a. I want all devices connected within the second router to be on the same subnet as the first router (192.168.1.x), rather than two subnets (192.168.1.x for the first and 192.168.5.x for the second)
b. I want all devices connecting through the second router to have different DNS settings than the first router

 

I want this set up because I want to the Roku 3 and Chromecast to be discoverable under the same network. Otherwise, I have to switch networks with my mobile devices/computers in order to be able to stream through the Roku or (especially) the Chromecast.


Is there a way to do this? When I switch off DHCP in the second router and turn it to router mode, I'm able to have all devices connecting through the same subnet (192.168.1.x), but the devices don't seem to pick up the DNS settings I stick into the Cisco. So while I can get the second device operating like a switch, I cannot seem to force devices connecting to the second router to use the DNS server I want them to.


I realise that there is another easier alternative: using IPTABLES in the first router to just force DNS settings on particular devices, and sticking to just one router. But somehow, ever since the Netflix problem started up, I cannot use Netflix on the Roku when I do this, even though I can all other services like Hulu+, and Amazon. Netflix on the Roku *only* works when the whole router's DNS settings are configured to UnoTelly... suggesting that there's some leakage that I am unable to catch.


Any ideas / help would be welcome :)



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  #1061391 8-Jun-2014 18:16
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Is the second router really necessary?  Can you not give these devices static IP addresses and/or fixed DNS settings?




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  #1061397 8-Jun-2014 18:29
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Hi,

No, the Roku doesn't allow static DNS - it just uses a router assigned DNS. When I use IPTABLES to force the Roku to use a certain DNS, netflix doesn't work, so the second router seems to be the only way to do it.

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  #1061415 8-Jun-2014 19:04
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Hmmm... to have both sets of gear on the one logical network with 2 routers would require one router to be in bridge mode which would stop your ability to have separate DHCP.

You might have to set your main DHCP to give out the necessary DNS settings for these appliances and manually configure the general use gear like PCs/tablets to use your ISP's DNS settings or Google's DNS servers in the case of wireless laptops that move to other networks.  PITA but not the end of the world.




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  #1061420 8-Jun-2014 19:17
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The DNS settings are distributed by DHCP, not simply by which router they are physically connected to. You can only, realistically, run one DHCP server on a subnet with consumer gear, so you're going to have to either manually assign the 'normal' DNS devices, or use two different subnets.

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  #1061459 8-Jun-2014 20:30
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The ideal solution is an IPTABLES entry like this:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i br0 -s 192.168.1.105 -p udp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination 103.6.212.24
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i br0 -s 192.168.1.105 -p tcp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination 103.6.212.24
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -d 8.8.4.4 -j DNAT --to-destination 54.252.112.136
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -d 8.8.8.8 -j DNAT --to-destination 103.6.212.24
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -d 208.67.222.222 -j DNAT --to-destination 54.252.112.136
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -d 208.67.220.220 -j DNAT --to-destination 103.6.212.24
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d 8.8.4.4 -j DNAT --to-destination 54.252.112.136
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d 8.8.8.8 -j DNAT --to-destination 103.6.212.24
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d 208.67.222.222 -j DNAT --to-destination 54.252.112.136
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d 208.67.220.220 -j DNAT --to-destination 103.6.212.24


But, for some reason, Netflix just doesn't work when you set it up this way (although everything else works like a wonder!).

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