help computers on the network cant see each other.

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jorel009
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help computers on the network cant see each other.

hi everyone, first of all great mod, i love toastmans tomato. i have two routers; both have tomato, and are linked in wds. this works great except for a couple of glitches: 1. wireless computers are not seen on the network and cannot computicate with other computers (like network sharing and stuff). 2. the signal quality is really low? maybe it should use the same drivers as dd-wrt...idk?

anyways my main concern is not being able to share with other comps on the network. i am using version "Tomato Firmware v1.28.7483", if i have the routers out of wds mode, they can communicate with each other. the routhers are maybe 15-20ft appart.

 

 

thanks.

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oops i forgot to mention that

oops i forgot to mention that the routers are a pair of wnr 3500l's. i read that windows computers - if they cant see each other it is because icmp pings are being blocked?

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well i fixed the issue by

well i fixed the issue by adding two rules in the firewall scripts page:

" #iptables -I INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j ACCEPT #iptables -I OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j ACCEPT "

now i can share over a wds network, add these to both of the routers scripts, administration -> scripts -> firewall.

now the only problem i have is the weak signal problem.

RSSI -88 dBm

Quality 6

TX/RX Rate 27 / 27

Noise Floor (eth1) : -94 dBm

its just really bad? idk what to do? dd-wrt gives better signal quality than this, is there anything i can do to boost the power?

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nevermind, it seems as if i

nevermind, it seems as if i cant connect to the wifi computers now.

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but the wifi computers can

but the wifi computers can connect to the lan computer shares.....wtf?