New tomato firmware and VM's

[eterna156]

Ok so I just got a asus rt-n66u router and upgraded it to Tomato
Version 1.28 by shibby. I also to configured OpenVPN Client so can run a vpn threw all connected devices.

My issues arises when I'm not getting network connections while using VMware with guest machine windows and host machine being windows as well.

Tried Nat and bridge connections but still not getting internet on my VM? before flasing to tomato I was not having these issues.

please help and will provide more info, let me know

 

[boosted1g]

It seems like you might be using terms incorrectly.

VPN is for connecting two networks at 2 completely different locations through the internet, VPN is a pointless waste of resources for local devices.

Is the router and VM configured for auto DHCP? Do you have the router configured to provide static IPs, if so then you might try removing the entry for that PC.

 

[eterna156]

I have a vpn running for anonymity reasons. I pay a vpn provider and use my log in credentials to configure in the OpenVPN Client Configuration setting. This may not have anything to do with my issues.

in the internet / wan settings for the router it is set to DHCP, not sure how I would go about checking if the router is configured to provide static Ip's, or how to remove the entry's. or why I would need to do such I thing in relation to internet connection to a VM?

sorry my networking knowledge on a scale of one to ten is like three.

 

[boosted1g]

The VPN connection should be irrelevant for your issues.

I am assuming you setup NAT and DHCP on the computer so you can have the vm?
Is the DHCP addresses on a different subnet then your primary addresses? If not that would be your issue. You cant have your router at 192.168.1.x and then setup the dhcp on your PC for 192.168.1.x as well.

My question earlier is if you manually setup staticIPs at the router. With tomato and dd-wrt and you can tell the router to assign the same IP to a specific mac address. Thus the router does not use that address in its dhcp except for that MAC address. Usefull when you have laptops or portable devices that you want a static IP for, but don't want to have to keep enabling/disabling dhcp at the device.
If you did not manually assign a static IP to each device then it is not configured that way, this is a manual only type of setting.