Connecting 360 TV over home LAN to router in modem mode
Hey everyone,
I’ve got a slightly more complicated home network than most - for several reasons including WFH network resiliance.
I’m using a Teltonika RUTX08 router as the gateway to two Internet connections, one with Virgin and one with Grain. The setup works nicely, with my ASUS XT9 mesh routers in Access Point mode providing the wireless connectivity, but leaving the routing to the more capable RUTX08.
Now, the problem I’ve encountered and I can’t find a definitive guide on is; how do I maintain connectivity over my LAN to the virgin media router, for the Virgin TV 360 box?
From a lot of research and trial/error, I’ve only found reference to the DNS servers being the key thing to ensure that the TV box is routing to the Virgin WAN interface and only using the Virgin DNS servers of 194.168.4.100 and 194.168.8.100.
So I wanted to ask the question with the hopes of us putting together a list of things you have to do to do this, i.e. does the IP address of the TV 360 box need to be a certain value or range? Does it need to see a certain MAC address either way? Are there any other settings?
Thanks in advance, Rob
I have a similar setup, VM and also a FTP 1G/1G, with the VM hub in modem mode. I use a UniFi UDM Pro router and have 50% of traffic going across each link. In my routers setup there is something called policy based routing and I use this for two things. To direct all traffic from my V6 to the VM hub and all traffic for 192.168.100.1, where ever it comes from, to the VM hub. Maybe there is something in your router that will do the same. I think it probably uses iptables to send data the correct way.