Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 3:51 Post subject: VLAN for IPTV help needed.
Hi,
My ISP is also my TV provider using IPTV. What happens is I get a public IP address on my router but before that there is a switch that all the IPTV STBs are connected to plus the router. It didn't seem as the most elegant solution because that means I have to put 2 cables to my TV: 1 for the STB the other for the TV to have internet (for SMB/DLNA streaming).
What I did is I created a separate VLAN that is connected to the internet (using the GUI I just put the checks on the same row for port4 and WAN). It actually worked and now I don't need the switch before that but I still have a problem with a problem with not being able to get the TV to connect to the same network (I actually haven't tested it but as far as I know without more changes it should be connected to the LAN network).
So my question is how should I setup the VLANs? I wanted to have it: If it is tagged it is LAN and if not it is an "extension" to my ISPs network because it just seemed logical. Another problem is I can't access the STB in any way (there is even no JTAG interface).
This is the current working setup:
Code:
root@DD-WRT:~# nvram show | grep vlan.*ports
nvram set "vlan2ports=4 8"
nvram set "vlan1ports=0 1 2 3 8*"
root@DD-WRT:~# nvram show | grep port.*vlans
nvram set "port5vlans=1 2 16"
nvram set "port3vlans=2 18 19 21"
nvram set "port1vlans=1 18 19 21"
nvram set "port4vlans=2 18 19 21"
nvram set "port2vlans=1 18 19 21"
nvram set "port0vlans=2 18 19 21"
root@DD-WRT:~# nvram show | grep vlan.*hwname
vlan2hwname=et0
vlan1hwname=et0
Any help would be very much appreciated. I have also tried:
My final goal would be to remove the STB and use Tvheadend in order to stream the channels but I still need to dig up more on their servers and network.
As fas as I can see the STB is trying to communicate with 10.5.0.5 if that helps (it gets an IP address from that same subnet 10.5.0.0).
