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JoyceBabu

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I have an Asus RT N18 router with TomatoUSB installed. The router subnet is 192.168.0.0/24. I have a docker daemon running on a linux client (192.168.0.10). There is a docker network configured on the above client with subnet 10.10.0.0/24. WAN port is connected to a Cable modem in DHCP mode.

I want to allow every client on the 192.168.0.0/24 subnet access to the docker network. So, I have configured the following static route

Destination - 10.10.0.0
Gateway - 192.168.0.10
Subnet - 255.255.255.0
Metric - 0
Interface - LAN

Most of the times this works as expected, and I get the following traceroute output.

Code:
$ traceroute 10.10.0.100
traceroute to 10.10.0.100 (10.10.0.100), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  1.956 ms  0.961 ms  3.210 ms
 2  192.168.0.10 (192.168.0.10)  2.907 ms  1.754 ms  1.641 ms
 3  10.10.0.100 (10.10.0.100)  4.351 ms  3.363 ms  1.938 ms

But many times, the packets are sent to the WAN port instead of the static route.

Code:
$ traceroute 10.10.0.100
traceroute to 10.10.0.100 (10.10.0.100), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  7.191 ms  1.557 ms *
 2  192.168.1.251 (192.168.1.251)  4.378 ms  5.266 ms  2.247 ms
 3  117.247.203.1 (117.247.203.1)  2.831 ms  10.618 ms  3.323 ms
 4  117.242.216.1 (117.242.216.1)  3.526 ms  2.777 ms  2.068 ms
 5  static.ill.218.248.58.134/24.bsnl.in (218.248.58.134)  63.865 ms  123.344 ms  162.384 ms
 6  * * *
 7  * 10.10.0.100 (10.10.0.100)  1.970 ms  2.725 ms

Is there anything else that I should do, in addition to creating the static route, for this to always work correctly?
 
It should be enough to place a static route for 10.10.100 to 192.168.0.10 on 192.168.0.1 . It seems strange that the router doesn't keep the network in it's route table and tries that subnet over the WAN, but depending on the settings that could be the case.
 
I was using DSL broadband until last month, and everything was working fine then. After that I replaced Tomato Shibby with Advance Tomato, and the issue started :(
 

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