I have a 2Wire Uverse router(RG). I'm not particularly fond of it and want to use it as a modem only. I have a Linksys router with Tomato firmware on it and want that to be configured as the router.
Most of the "guides" I've seen in my searches has been to enable DMZ Plus mode, but I don't see a way to make that work while my router has a static IP address. I played with it for quite some time yesterday and didn't see a way to get it to work. Then I ran across a setting in broadband for configuring another network. I played with that for a little bit but ran out of time and couldn't get it to work.
So my question is for anyone out there who has Uverse and successfully setup a Tomato based firmware router behind the RG. How did you get it configured? I'm sure if I continued playing with it I could get it to work, but if someone out there already has it working then that would make my life easier.
Thoughts? Thanks.
Best Answer
I don't have quite the same setup but I have had a similar setup for some time (until recently that is).
What I did is just set up the modem as a basic router.
Connect your linksys router to it so that the WAN port on the linksys router is connected to the LAN on the back of the RG.
You'll want to set up a local network on the RG with settings like: Local LAN setting 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0
Now on the Linksys router set the LAN port to this. 192.168.2.1/255.255.255.0 (gateway mode - router mode didn't seem to work for me?) DHCP enabled.
On the Linksys router on the WAN side assign a static IP of 192.168.1.2/255.255.255.0
Now only plug devices into the linksys router ethernet ports or use the wireless on the linksys router. You can then use the QoS features of Tomato etc.
Make sure you disable the wireless LAN on the RG (it appears from the doc I'm reading that it has wireless features).