OBi202 - Any advantage to hooking router to OBi?
Willy-Bill:
I was hoping someone would've had some info. I am planning on getting one of these, but have a slightly different question. I won't ask it here, unless everyone wishes me to, as I believe it would require a new thread.
Lavarock7:
Here are my thoughts:
I bought a wifi device for my 202 but then realized that I needed the QOS the 202 provided, so I go Modem to OBI202 to Router.
With that setup I connect to the Obi with my internet IP address.
The problem I have is getting an external Obi (in another state) to send me Syslog info. I tried forwarding through the OBI to the Router (from WAN to LAN addresses) to my PC with no luck. Who knows where I got hung up, but finally gave up.
Not to get off topic, but I may be able to have both router and Obi in parallel. I did notice that my cable company supplies an IP to my router in one address space and other devices get another IP address. I am thinking of hooking a switch to the modem and put the Obi and Router on different IPs. I don't know what the other IP space is for but if if it works, it can solve one problem :-)
Willy-Bill:
I would be a bit careful. Often the modem will provide a local IP address, while the ISP IP is bridged through.
MikeHObi:
Quote from: Lavarock7 on May 06, 2013, 03:53:15 pm
The problem I have is getting an external Obi (in another state) to send me Syslog info. I tried forwarding through the OBI to the Router (from WAN to LAN addresses) to my PC with no luck. Who knows where I got hung up, but finally gave up.
Syslog needs UDP port 514 open assuming default configuration. Is that what you forwarded?
Quote from: Lavarock7 on May 06, 2013, 03:53:15 pm
Not to get off topic, but I may be able to have both router and Obi in parallel. I did notice that my cable company supplies an IP to my router in one address space and other devices get another IP address. I am thinking of hooking a switch to the modem and put the Obi and Router on different IPs. I don't know what the other IP space is for but if if it works, it can solve one problem :-)
Your ISP issues one IP address to your router. The router is then responsible for using NAT and it's own internal DHCP server to issue out local IP Addresses. That is where you get the different networks from. The router routes between the ISP and the local network.
Shale:
Quote from: Lavarock7 on May 06, 2013, 03:53:15 pm
Here are my thoughts:
I bought a wifi device for my 202 but then realized that I needed the QOS the 202 provided, so I go Modem to OBI202 to Router.
With that setup I connect to the Obi with my internet IP address.
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I am thinking that you are saying that the voice quality did indeed improve with this setup. Are you having the OBi pass the WAN IP address to the router on its LAN port, or is the OBi202 doing the DHCP and the external router is configured to not do the DHCP?
The problem I have is getting an external Obi (in another state) to send me Syslog info. I tried forwarding through the OBI to the Router (from WAN to LAN addresses) to my PC with no luck. Who knows where I got hung up, but finally gave up.
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I presume you have a static IP for the computer you are trying to log to.
Not to get off topic, but I may be able to have both router and Obi in parallel. I did notice that my cable company supplies an IP to my router in one address space and other devices get another IP address. I am thinking of hooking a switch to the modem and put the Obi and Router on different IPs. I don't know what the other IP space is for but if if it works, it can solve one problem :-)
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