Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 0:03 Post subject: Networking with DD-WRT
Hi everyone. I've been having a lot of problems with Home Networking in W!ndows XP (basic file and printer sharing) and I think there are some settings in DD-WRT that I have to change. Has anyone experienced problems with networking and their DD-WRT router, and does anyone have any suggestions for me? Thanks a lot.
No, I can't ping the other PC, and yes, I have turned off Windows Firewall. I think it's either a setting in the DD-WRT firewall, or some other settings.
Last edited by ignite339 on Thu Oct 26, 2006 18:33; edited 1 time in total
disable 'loopback' option (under admnistration) and disable 'ap isolation' if enabled (under wireless/advanced)
Yes; do those things and report back please.
Also, tell me if I am right. With the AP Isolation turned to "enabled", you could ping from the computer that was hardwired to the router, but could not ping from the computer that was connected via wireless.
I disabled loopback, and the other option was already disabled. I can't ping either computer, and disabling loopback made the computer wirelessly connected unable to access the internet, and it disappeared from "wireless clients". What am I doing wrong!!!
disable 'loopback' option (under admnistration) and disable 'ap isolation' if enabled (under wireless/advanced)
Yes; do those things and report back please.
Also, tell me if I am right. With the AP Isolation turned to "enabled", you could ping from the computer that was hardwired to the router, but could not ping from the computer that was connected via wireless.
When you say 'ping', do you mean ping the router (192.168.1.1)?
EDIT: Okay, here's what's going on. I have two computers hooked up by wire (one of which is mine) and one wirelessly. We are all on the same workgroup, and have all ran the Home Network Setup thing. The wired computer (not mine) can ping me fine, but I cannot ping it. I can't even access the Workgroup Computers under My Network Places. Could there be something wrong on my part? (PS. Windows Firewall is OFF.)
Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 15:12 Post subject: ping issues
I'm having an issue similar to what is described in this thread. I first thought it was a windows networking issue - I didn't have it set up properly, but after reading through the thread, I realize something is going on with dd-wrt. There's a setting/feature that I can't find that is controlling the LAN. I've got two computers and I can't ping either one from the other. I can ping the router from both.
Any assistance with configuring dd-wrt would be greatly appreciated.
Hi,
I had a similar problem...you need to rule out everything on your end first before looking at the router or you'll be chasing ghosts. What I did that worked was.
BTW -- I'm networking two windows xp home machines w/ up to date windows update files. Connected with a Buffalo WHR-G54s running DD-WRT v23 SP2 std
Ran critical updates both computers
Disabled windows firewall
Disabled any/all firewalls on each computer
Shut down my av (many come with firewalls, I'm just trying to make sure I killed itl).
Even if you don't need to, I checked out each account on each computer just to be sure everybody was doing what I thought they were doing.
Ran the network setup wizard on each computer (Once again, don't know if it's necessary..but I figured it would not hurt.)
It worked after that...
...I then had to specifically tell Mcafee Security to let me in, before it would let me share with the program running.
...I don't know what your using but you may have similar options in your av/firewall
I had to specifically allow all traffic for my lan
I had to enable, under services, file and print sharing for windows, Mcafee was blocking the port netbios wanted to use 139 or 137...can't remember.
I had to enable ICMP (ping) for the computer (I just wanted to ping it, I doubt it did anything useful in terms of getting networked.
