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Nested routers for QoS and Parental Controls

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gbuskirk

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I need QoS for VOIP, and Parental Controls with Content Filtering for the kids protection. I don't know of a router that offers both, so I'm trying to put a router with CF (Zyxel HS-100W) behind a QoS router (Zyxel X-550) to get both. The HS-100W's WAN port is connected to a X-550 LAN Port. The HS-100W's LAN is 192.168.3.x, the X-550's LAN is 192.168.2.x. The X-550's WAN port goes to the cable modem/ISP.
The HS-100W has DHCP enabled with reserved IPs for all machines (so it gets DNS server info from the DHCP server in the X-550). NAT is disabled in the HS-100W, but I added a Many One-to-One Address Mapping rule to map WAN 192.168.3.x to LAN 192.168.3.x. This seemed to be necessary.
The X-550 has LAN DHCP server enabled, and a reserved IP address for the HS-100W. It has a static route of all 192.168.3.x packets to the LAN IP address of the HS-100W.
With this setup, thinks are almost all OK. Machines on either subnet can ping machines on the other. However, Network Neighborhood does not find resources across the subnets. Halo Multiplayer doesn't find servers across the subnets either, but will link by direct IP.
How can I do things differently so drive shares, etc can be found across the subnets?

Glenn
 
Wait i just bought a x-550 and I am pretty sure it will do both content filtering and QOS. Is there a reason why you just dont use the x-550 alone?

John
 
The X-550 does time-based access control, and white-list access control. The HS-100W content filtering proxies all new URLs to a service called BlueCoat that looks up a profile for that website. The kids are logged in with profiles as mature teen, young teen, child, etc, and are allowed to access only appropriate websites. I determine based on subject matter type, what is appropriate for those profiles. It's much more effective that the time-based or white-list controls of the X-550.
 
Well NetBios name resolution is a crap shoot even for the most basic systems. When you add two subnets seperated by a router you basically render it useless. Easiest thing for you to do is setup LMHOSTS files on each machine that will help out the name resolution. You should be able to set up one file and copy it to all the other machines. Not the cleanest way, but it will work.

John
 
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