2 WAN IPs on a single WAN connection...

[Teymur]

Hi guys,

I'm using RT-AC87U.
Maybe someone could possible explain to me why am I seeing the "2-nd WAN IP address" highlighted in red. Which doesn't even look like a WAN IP address. I can't ping it. What is it? Has anyone seen something like that? I didn't have it like few days back. It was 0.0.0.0. And now it is 192.168.1.37. Where did this come from? Any ideas?

 

[mstombs]

You would need a local wan IP on the wan interface to access modem stats on 192.168.1.1, is their a tick box to enable that?

 

[Teymur]

You would need a local wan IP on the wan interface to access modem stats on 192.168.1.1, is their a tick box to enable that?

There is no such a tick box to enable that. The LAN IP of the router is set to 192.168.1.1 and that's how I access its web interface. My ADSL modem is in bridge mode and has only one ethernet port which is connected to the WAN port of the router. As far as I know, when the modem with one ethernet port is in "Bridge" mode, how would you access its interface anyways? My question is that I never configured anything to get this 192.168.1.37 how did it appear there?

 

[mstombs]

I don't have PPPoE nor that router, but other firmwares use scripts and tomato has a checkbox to enable modem access when in pppoe bridge mode. The modem should not be in same local range as modem see

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Access_To_Modem_Configuration

for info.

 

[Teymur]

I don't have PPPoE nor that router, but other firmwares use scripts and tomato has a checkbox to enable modem access when in pppoe bridge mode. The modem should not be in same local range as modem see

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Access_To_Modem_Configuration

for info.

Thanks for the info. Now I've changed my ADSL modem's IP from 192.168.1.20 to 10.0.0.1 and DHCP is still enabled on it. Now the picture has changed. But I'm still not able to access the modem's web interface. The IP 10.0.0.3 takes me to the router's web interface. The IP 10.0.0.1 takes me nowhere. I can't even ping it. But there is IP 10.0.0.2 which I can ping, but also takes me nowhere. See:

 

[cHarley]

It looks to me like your modem isn't really in bridge mode and is still handing out (DHCP) LAN IP's.