Networks Thoughts

having upgraded both broadband lines to infinity, I needed a new dual broadband router, so I bought a TP-Link TL-ER5120 to replace my Netgear FVS336G.

now I wish I could just transfer the firmware from the Netgear to the TP-link.

the way TP-link and Netgear do things couldn't be anymore different.

the reason for the change is that the Netgear can't cope with 75MB on each line, and halves the available speed, I have proved it with the TP-Link.

the problem I am now facing is configuring the peered static ip addresses BT supply, I have to try and convert the way it's done on the Netgear to the way its done on the TP-Link, which is giving me a headache.

I have around 5 websites hosted on one machine, which use different ports, the Netgear nicely translates and forwards the static ip addresses to the correct port, I can't seem to find a way to do it on the TP-Link.

 

Check the netgear issue isn't due to a bad mtu setting. I've seen that recently

 

the FVS336g can only handle a total of 60Mbps wan to lan

but thanks for the suggestion

 

I just checked mtu, and it wont let me change it from 1492 due to the use of pppoe

 

1492 + the 8 bits for the PPPoE overhead is correct.

Had a look at the manual for that gateway and it looks like a nightmare

 

that's what I thought, the netgear is piss easy to setup, the tp-link on the otherhand, is a nightmare

I can get it to work as a dual broadband router it's just finding the right settings for the peered static ip addresses

 

Looks like you need to go to Services
→
PPPoE Server
→
IP Address Pool

Then add in your extra IP's.

Then you can do NAT mappings for port 80 etc on each IP address

 

Thanks i'll take a look, and let you know

 

think I might give up on the tp-link, "this port has already been assigned" yes I know I want to assign it again to a different static ip address and internal port

whilst on paper it looks like it should be up to the job I want it to do, it's very restrictive.

Saspro I tried the things you suggested, it just doesn't work, grr

if I had separate machines for each website, it will probably work, but I don't have a budget for that

 

Use host headers/bindings in IIS to do it?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc753195(v=ws.10).aspx

 

Holy thread resurrection, well actually an update.

I decided to give up trying to sort the tp-link tl-er5120, so instead bought a Netgear srx5308, which I am glad to say works the way I want it too.

thanks for your help saspro