@Hank21 , Thanks for your reply and apologies for delay in getting back.

 

No, if I connect the WAN port of my modem to my laptop, I don't get the connection. But the good news is that I figure out that that I was making two mistakes. First of all, I was making a small error in PPPoE password. Second, my ISP told me that I shouldn't enable vLAN. Once I made these corrections, TL-ER7206 WAN link connected successfully.

 

I am now moving to the next step where I connect my second broadband line also to the router so that I can get seamless failover. My second ISP has given me a single device that is cable modem cum wireless router. So the only Ethernet port I have on this is of the type that you asked about in your email. In the sense that if I directly conenct that to my laptop's LAN port, I do get Internet. So while configuring that WAN, should I selected DHCP as connection type or should I use PPPoE for this also with Dynamic IP?

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

- Madhukar

 

@Hank21 

 

The screenshot in your reply says "Connect the computer to the modem which used to dial up the modem". Did you mean connect the computer to the router that used to dialup the modem?

 

In my case, it is a single cable modem cum WiFi router. It takes a cable as input and has only one Enternet port marked with the icon of LAN. I have done the following:

 

• DIsconnected this modem-router from ER7206 and connected to my computer via a RJ45 cable. I confirmed that I am getting Internet access.
• I removed the RJ45 cable from my computer and connected it to the WAN/LAN1 port of ER7206. I used another RJ45 cable to connected the rightmost LAN port on ER7206 to my computer
• In the web-based interface, I went to MAC->WAN/LAN1 and clicked on "Clone current PC's MAC". I could see the displayed MAC address changing.
• I then went to WAN->WAN/LAN1 section and clicked on Connect

 

However it still doesn't connect.

 

The modem/router that I am using is Technicolor TC7200.d1l

 

 

Thanks for all the help,

 

- Madhukar

 

@Hank21,

 

Please see below a screenshot of Advance Settings page of this Technicolor modem

 

@MadhukarBhatia , @Hank21 

 

Finally, below are some messages in my ER7206's log.

 

@Hank21, Thanks for your reply.

 

Yes. WAN1 got set up properly.  It was a PPPoE type of connection and it is working properly.

 

The second ISP is of Dynamic IP type because if I connect it directly to my laptop, I do get Internet. I assume ER7206 supports this mix of two different types of ISP

 

You have asked me for two IP addresses. Where do I find ER7206's IP address of WAN2? When I go to the WAN set up of WAN2 (actually LAN/WAN1. The first ISP is connected to the left most port i.e. the fixed WAN port), all the IP addresses are blank the status is shown as disconnected.

 

I didn't understand what you meant by the "router's IP address". Do you mean the IP address of the ISP's router? I am pasting below a screenshot from the web management page of this router (Technicolor) below for your reference. I think this is about the LAN side of the router. If it will help, I can try to find their WAN side IP address also.

 

Technicolor also seems to be using 192.168.0.1, which I think will be default behaviour for most such devices. Which IP do you think will be safer / easier to change. The one in Technicolor or ER7206.

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

Hi @Hank21 

 

I changed the LAN side IP address of Technicolor to 192.168.1.200. I made no changes in the ER7206 settings. But it didn't help. Then I reset the settings in Technicolor and changed the LAN IP address in ER7206 to 192.168.1.200. The error log simply changed to show a conflict with the new address.  I am now wondering whether I need to change that IP address to a different subnet like 192.168.1.1

 

Looks like I cannot set the IP of Technicolor to 192.168.1.1. Now I am out of ideas as to what is actually going wrong and what can be done. Please do let me know if I can send you any other information or logs for debugging. Thanks