Why won't my LAN and WAN play together?

March 18, 2006 8:10 AM

I can share files over SMB on a local network, or do stuff on the internets -- but not at the same time. How can I make the LAN and WAN play nice?

The kit: WinXP Pro serving the SMB shares, Linksys WRT54G router with HyperWRT, iBook connecting wirelessly.

I can mount the SMB shares on the iBook, but as soon as I do anything with the WAN -- browse the web, check email -- the connection drops like a stone. It means I can't transfer files or work with remote files without ensuring that I won't receive stray packets from the outside world. I've tried different router firmwares, checked firewalls, and done all the usual network diagnostics. Any idea what might be up?

posted by holgate to computers & internet (2 comments total)

Try running "ping [xp box ip]" on your iBook while you mount and browse the shares and then browse the web. Do you keep getting responses?
posted by ny_scotsman at 5:44 PM on March 18, 2006

Pings work fine: it's definitely limited to SMB. And looking at the syslog, I now see that it's been discussed here and here. Grr. Thanks, anyway.
posted by holgate at 8:32 PM on March 18, 2006