Use SH2 for digital voice and Asus router for wired / wifi internet

[licquorice]

Glad you managed to get it working.

[decimus_burton]

Just a bit of clarification.  Based on a bit of trial and error.

With the ASUS WAN settings.  The 802.1Q setting is set to NO.

Under PPPoE it was set to YES and the two settings were:
VLAN ID: 101
802.1P: 0

Under the configuration
OpenReach Master Socket -> BT SH2 -> ASUS DSL-AX82U

If on the ASUS DSL-AX82U under WAN the 802.1Q setting is set to NO -> then you can login on a browser to 192.168.1.254 and see the BT SH2 settings.

If 02.1Q setting is set to YES -> then you CANNOT login on a browser to 192.168.1.254 and see the BT SH2 settings.

Not sure what 802.1Q does but that is the impact of leaving it set to the default YES.

Peter

[licquorice]

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@decimus_burton wrote:

Just a bit of clarification.  Based on a bit of trial and error.

With the ASUS WAN settings.  The 802.1Q setting is set to NO.

Under PPPoE it was set to YES and the two settings were:
VLAN ID: 101
802.1P: 0

Yes, because in that configuration the Asus is a modem as well as a router.

Under the configuration
OpenReach Master Socket -> BT SH2 -> ASUS DSL-AX82U

If on the ASUS DSL-AX82U under WAN the 802.1Q setting is set to NO -> then you can login on a browser to 192.168.1.254 and see the BT SH2 settings.

If 02.1Q setting is set to YES -> then you CANNOT login on a browser to 192.168.1.254 and see the BT SH2 settings.

Not sure what 802.1Q does but that is the impact of leaving it set to the default YES.

Peter

It should be set to No as the modem is now in the hub not the Asus.

I don't understand how you can log into the hub though without connecting directly to it though. It is on a different subnet to the Asus.

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[decimus_burton]

I have no idea either.... but I'm really glad I can do it  😉

As you say

BT SH2 is one network: 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254

ASUS is the sub-network: 192.168.50.1 to 192.168.50.254

In my browser 192.168.1.254  logs me into the BT SH2.  See screen shot below

All I need is the hub password to get into the Advance settings area

In my browser 192.168.50.1 logs me into the ASUS panel.  (192.168.50.1 forwards to http://www.asusrouter.com/ )

[TimCurtis]

@decimus_burton 

You might want to edit & repost that SH2 image as we all now know your phone number - if you get a chance or if not get a mod to delete the image.

[TimCurtis]

@decimus_burton 

I don't know why you're using PPoE as the WAN connection type as it should be a static IP Address like 192.168.50.2 that the SH2 forwards everything to.

[decimus_burton]

Tim - thanks - edited and blurred out

[decimus_burton]

I was using PPPoE in the previous configuration where I was not using a BT hub. It seems I am forced to use a BT SH2 as BT have moved us to digital voice and we wanted to keep our land line. BTW we only get calls on that line from Spammers and from Grandma.

[countrypaul]

I suspect you can login to the SH2 from the Asus because the SH2 is not on the local subnet so the connection will be forwarded by the router (ASUS)to the next router (SH2) which will realise that it knows that subnet and deals with it accordingly, as it would anything else on that subnet. In the mode the ASUS is in, it probably is not performing NAT and leaving that to the SH2.

[TimCurtis]

The way I set up my Asus DSL-AC68U with the SH2 and DV and having access to the SH2 was briefly as follows:-

My Asus IP range was 192.168.1.xx and the SH2 I set to 192.168.2.xx , mainly as I had 40 devices with fixed IP addresses prior to the SH2.

In the Asus I set the WAN type to fixed IP with an address of 192.168.2.2 and the default gateway as 192.168.2.1 and subnet mask of 255.255.252.0 although I think 255.255.254.0 would work as well.

In Dual WAN I set it to ethernet Port 4 and connected that port directly to port 1 on the SH2.

In the SH2 I set it to 192.168.2.1 , assigned the Asus a fixed IP of 192.168.2.2.

Port forwarded all IPv4/6 traffic to 192.168.2.2 and also put the Asus in the DMZ although that might be unnecessary.

Obviously DHCP, Wifi etc were disabled.

I used the different subnet mask to allow access outside of the 192.168.1.xx range.

That all worked very well for me but now I've ditched the SH2 and DV so back to a normal configuration.