Xbox LAN connection between 3 networks with RB750GL

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Dear all,

Wondering if you can help me with this (or at least point me in the right direction to setup properly):

Me and my brothers live next to eachother, and we each have our own in house network where each of our network have separate 1.5 mbps net connection from the same ISP.

We chipped in to buy a 4 tb net drive to store all our collective data and connected that to our MikroTIK RB750GL. We setup our 750 to route between 4 networks (3 networks for each house, and a 4th for the net drive). I’ll describe write our current setup below. If unclear, i will post a network configuration later on.

The good thing is, each of us can access our net drive no matter which house we put it in, all we needed to do was map out net drive on each pc that we have.

What we could not do for the life of us is play lan games on our xbox 369. The xbox just wouldn’t route to eachother.

Also, we can’t access the net drive to access movies using our WDTV Live media player (which sucks because 2 tb worth of hd movies are stored on the net drive. Apparently, he WDTV could only access drives that are on the same network, regardless if we setup routing on the 750GL.

House A Network: 192.168.11.0/24, auto dhcp, has wifi router connected to 750GL
House B Network: 192.168.12.0/24, auto dhcp, has wifi router connected to 750GL
House C Network: 192.168.13.0/24, auto dhcp, has wifi router connected to 750GL
RouterBoard 750GL located at house B
Network Drive connected to 750GL at house B with static ip on network 192.168.14.0

Routing table setup to allow routing from and to each network.

Is there a setting that enables the three network to communicate as if its the same network while maintaining the different ip schemes?

If not, is there a way to setup the 750GL so that all our networks are in the same LAN (ie, single ip), but still maintain separate dhcp and net connection? We don’t want clients from one house accessing internet from another house, but still be able to treat clients between houses as same network.

I hope the above description is clear. Please kindly refrain from suggesting a radical change if possible. We still prefer to have separate networks as a matter of principle rather than practical. Unless there is no choice.

Thanks in advance for your help guys.

Sincerely, Moose.

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Hi,

Is there a setting that enables the three network to communicate as if its the same network while maintaining the different ip schemes?

What do you mean exactly?

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We want to maintain each network ip scheme (192.168.11.0, 12.0, 13.0), but want to setup the RB750GL to act as if these three networks are in the same LAN. I think this is the only way our xbox can connect to eachother for playing lan games, and for our WDTV media player to be able to access our net drive no matter which house/network its located at.

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do you mean that the XboXes can communicate to each other if they are in the same network (like 192.168.1.0/24)?
I’ve never try Xbox on lan, but I think it must have network configuration and you can set default gateway for this.

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The xbox does have that setting, but we’ve tried setting the default gateway as the wireless router it connects to, and the xbox can’t connect to the net. We’ve also tried setting the gateway as the 750GL (which is 192.168.14.32), but it seems that the xbox can’t access the net when we change the gateway.

I think i’ll post the network configuration drawing here on my next post to avoid confusions to my description… Hang on…

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Ok I’ll wait.
but Hmm…
I understood that you want to connect xboxes and use WDTV player and don’t let users in other house to use others internet ?
If just this, there can be other solutions.

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Here’s the network diagram for your information. Sorry it took a while, i had to upload to dropbox first :slight_smile: → http://db.tt/lI2pl4am. Does this help? you mentioned another solution… at this point, i’ll take whatever advice you can give me.

Mooseworks 8

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Are you able to chat via Yahoo IM or google talk?

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never tried that, but messaging services with my iphone works fine on my network (using iMessage)… never tries between houses though.

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I mean to chat with me to solve your problem better!!! Nothing???

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Hahaha… :smiley: Sorry about that… it’s 3 am here in Jakarta, so my eyes are getting heavy.

Well, i haven’t used google talk in a while, and i don’t use yahoo. i Hope you don’t mind trying this forum for a while… see if this works. If not, i’ll sign up for yahoo to chat.

Thanks in advance for your assistance. Hope to continue this tomorrow :slight_smile:

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No problem my friend. here is 11:30 PM in Iran and I start my night tour :smiley: .
I’m able to talk to you tomorrow.

good Night :slight_smile:

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HI’m back :slight_smile:

In order for everyone to get a clear understanding, i’m including below a screenshot of my interface and route list using WinBox V5.2. If you want to see other settings, please let me know.

Hope the above helps.

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What IP addresses did you set on the interfaces?
in terminal, try codes below:

/ interface print detail
/ IP address print detail
/ IP firewall nat print detail
/ IP firewall filter print detail

and paste them.

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Dear Sadeghrafi,

see below my paste of the requested prints:

MMM      MMM       KKK                          TTTTTTTTTTT      KKK
  MMMM    MMMM       KKK                          TTTTTTTTTTT      KKK
  MMM MMMM MMM  III  KKK  KKK  RRRRRR     OOOOOO      TTT     III  KKK  KKK
  MMM  MM  MMM  III  KKKKK     RRR  RRR  OOO  OOO     TTT     III  KKKKK
  MMM      MMM  III  KKK KKK   RRRRRR    OOO  OOO     TTT     III  KKK KKK
  MMM      MMM  III  KKK  KKK  RRR  RRR   OOOOOO      TTT     III  KKK  KKK

  MikroTik RouterOS 5.2 (c) 1999-2011       http://www.mikrotik.com/

[admin@MikroTik] > /interface print detail

Flags: D - dynamic, X - disabled, R - running, S - slave 
 0     name="ether1" type="ether" mtu=1500 l2mtu=1598 

 1  R  name="ether2" type="ether" mtu=1500 l2mtu=1598 

 2  R  name="ether3" type="ether" mtu=1500 l2mtu=1598 

 3  R  name="ether4" type="ether" mtu=1500 l2mtu=1598 

 4     name="ether5" type="ether" mtu=1500 l2mtu=1598 



[admin@MikroTik] > /ip address print detail

Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 
 0   address=192.168.14.63/32 network=255.255.255.0 interface=ether5 actual-interface=ether5 

 1   address=192.168.11.63/32 network=255.255.255.0 interface=ether2 actual-interface=ether2 

 2   address=192.168.13.63/32 network=255.255.255.0 interface=ether4 actual-interface=ether4 

 3   address=192.168.12.63/32 network=255.255.255.0 interface=ether3 actual-interface=ether3 



[admin@MikroTik] > /ip firewall nat print detail

Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 



[admin@MikroTik] > /ip firewall filter print detail

Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic
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Since the Mikrotik is connected to our wireless routers (which is the DHCP server), can the problem be on the wireless router?

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Why did you set such IPs? I think it usually use for prevent arp spoofing!!!
192.168.14.63/32
Other devices in your network are use /24 and you use /32. in order to this your route list is not correct.
try to edit your subnet in each interface

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Wow, i hadn’t noticed that… i thought the route was set on the route list window below, and this says /24 (255.255.255.0)

Where do i go to correct that?

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FYI, i never intended to prevent any arp sppofing. I’ve yet to setup the firewall (which i will do once i have eveything setup) :slight_smile: