If you check the network configuration that I posted you will see that it is not the case.
If that were true then adding the route on my PC wouldn't work.
Is this new situation unique or could you say it has manifested since either the previously mention thread or since you changed IP range on this Interface?
Because not knowing, affects the trustworthiness of the wiki page you authored.
It's the other way around. By adding the route you bypass the main router and there is no routing asymmetry.
I remember it was working correctly; but I could be wrong. That wiki page is under my own user's home page and I just authored it yesterday as agreed with @WereCatf in the other thread; by walking back my steps I noticed that the static route was not working and opened this new thread. This thread is about fixing the problem, afterwards I can fix the wiki page if needed. But so far we do not know whether the wiki page steps are not incorrect or not. I think I provided enough information to troubleshoot the issue, let's go with analysis instead of trust, shall we?
Ok, so perhaps this static route never worked; what is the solution to do routing in this setup? Nobody mentioned it so far.
I don't think the secondary router can do anything about this because it is acting as a switch for the PC and the main router.
You can either setup a dedicated uplink. Or loosen up the firewall to ignore invalid packets.
You are correct Viktor, it was less than amicable for me to post despairingly about your sincere contribution to our community. I am embarrassed and hope that I can work toward a sincere rapport for future projects.
From a similar case solved some time ago.
No problem, I think we both have good intentions; right now I consider it a draft, I would like to make that page much better before moving it to a non-personal section of the wiki. And surely if it contains incorrect steps it has to be amended/retracted. Unfortunately I hit this snag and due to my ignorance on routing I could not properly figure it out / fix it.
Thanks for the help so far!
I will check this thread, thanks; from the top of my head I could either:
- use DHCP to push the extra route to clients
- reconfigure this using separate VLANs (since both routers are OpenWRT)
On the main router, I suppose?
Also, which zone?
The traffic flow atm:
Your pc->primary router lanint->secondary router lanint->server50 and backwards, server50->secondary router 50int->your pc.
Matti
Main router
You have wan and lan, take a wild guess...
Hey guys,
I had a simililar problem with more than one router and I think it helped to allow invalid traffic in the "LAN-Firewall-Zone". - But could you please explain it a bit more and I think my network traffic isn't opitmized. The network feels very laggy and udp-traffic is somehow not clear within the LAN.
Or Masquerade on the lan zone of the secondary router?
It won't make any difference if the initiator is the first router lan device.
One direction is:
host A -> router 1 -> router 2 -> host B
the other direction is:
host B -> router 2 -> host A
Router 1 never gets the response and believes the next packet from host A is invalid/out of order.
You are absolutely right it was late last night.
I can remember (but might be wrong) mitigating this by masquerading traffic which comes in to the router via the lan and goes out again, that is what I meant.
So traffic will not come from the client but from the router and goes back to the router.
If not it will have another address and can be classified as invalid.