I’m encountering an issue with my network setup involving a RUT950 and a Google AC-1304 Wi-Fi router. Here’s the situation:
For a while, we had the RUT950 connected via Ethernet to the Google router, and everything worked perfectly. However, something seems to have changed—possibly due to a reset—causing the Google router to revert to factory settings. Since then, we’ve been relying solely on the RUT950’s built-in Wi-Fi, which isn’t ideal for our home network.
This Christmas, I decided to fix the setup and restore it to how it was. I performed a factory reset on both the RUT950 and the Google router. The RUT950 worked fine after the reset—its Wi-Fi was functional, and the internet connection was stable.
However, when I connected the Google router to the RUT950 via Ethernet, it couldn’t connect to the internet (I tried LAN port 1-3). The green Ethernet light on the RUT950 blinks, indicating data transfer, but the Google router doesn’t seem to receive an IP address (or it’s not being assigned one via DHCP). I also tried connecting a computer directly to the RUT950’s Ethernet port, but that didn’t work either. It could not reach internet.
Is there a specific setting I need to enable or disable on the RUT950 to make this work? My goal is for the RUT950 to act as a switch or modem, with the Google router managing my home network.
Looks like I can’t upload the troubleshoot file as a new member, so I uploaded it here: https://file.io/zsrb2vE1YpZs
I’d greatly appreciate any guidance, as I’m completely stuck at this point.
Its a bit unclear what steps you have done and what configurations are on your device but I think you need to access the RUT950 first, make sure WAN and LAN interface are setup correctly. Maybe you need to enable DHCP server and configure it?
I think the LAN interface defaults to 192.168.1.1 … this is also a very common subnet used in homes by many ISP’s so there is a good chance you’ll have a conflict there.
If the RUT950 is acting as your main internet router, you’ll need to configure it according to ISP spec. If you have a ISP router for internet access, connect your pc to that and see if you have internet access. If you do, check the ip, netmask and gateway your laptop received.
Next, connect your laptop to LAN on the RUT950. Connect to webinterface and configure WAN and LAN. WAN you can leave on DHCP. It should receive an address from your ISP router (same subnet as the one your laptop got when it was connected to that router).
Configure LAN with a static IP in a different subnet. If ISP uses 192.168.1.0 /24, use something like 192.168.2.0 /24 subnet (you can choose but it cannot be the same as the subnet on the WAN). The IP you give the LAN port will be the gateway for all your devices in the LAN … so it is common to use .1 or .254 in a /24 subnet.
When that is done, check the DHCP server service on the RUT950, make sure it is enabled and that it can handout ip-addresses in the LAN subnet you chose. If this is all setup, your laptop should now be able to receive a DHCP lease. If this works, you should be able to connect the google device and set that up.