I have this RB750 routerboard and I would like to connect it behind my dlink wireless router instead of directly to my WAN port.
Appreciate if there’s anyone that can give some advice on what method to use.
A diagram would help but as a guess…
A d-link home wireless router has 4 Ethernet ports that are considered LAN(local area network), when you connect a device to one of those it will receive a DHCP address of 192.168.1.x. (unless you set it up differently). If you connect the RB here and manually assign it for 192.168.1.240 set the default gateway to the d-link 192.168.1.1, configure some other port on the RB with a different network, then you could route through the d-link.
Where as the wan port is supposed to be connected to an ISP who will give you a real internet address. You don’t want the RB to provide an address to the d-link since it would be ISP-Router-d-link-network?
Nope I don’t know what you are trying to build.
Joe
That’s exactly what I wanted, because I only want to use Rb to update my dyndns.
So connect the RB to a LAN port, connect your computer to a LAN port, open a browser to 192.168.1.1 or what ever the d-link address is (it is the default gateway that got assigned to your computer), put in the d-link password, go to the screen with DHCP leases, find your RB, open a web browser to the RB, set the IP address manually or configure a reservation in the d-link for the RB. Configure the RB to populate DynDNS? Collect money!
I am trying the same thing with the DIR-635. Had no success, yet…
There are quite a number of scripts available online for the Dyndns, my main objective is to test if the dyndns works in this environment if it does without any issue then I will deploy this first then start planning my network I don’t want to much down timeworn configuring the network