Netgear WNDR3700 behind firewall?

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Hello All,

I'm in a bit of a predicament. Trying to set up a Netgear WNDR3700 behind a SonicWall TZ170 SP (Standard OS). The only thing I really want the SonicWall to do is maintain site-to-site VPN connections to a few other networks that I work with.

The SonicWall WAN is passing Internet connectivity to the LAN ports as it is supposed to but the hangup seems to happen at the Netgear; it doesn't seem to want to receive Internet connectivity from anything but a modem and it doesn't want it going to any port but the Internet port (IE, it doesn't seem to want to share Internet via the switches).

I'm thinking this may be a limitation of the firmware and that dd-wrt might be the only answer but I thought I'd bring it here first as my last experience with dd-wrt wasn't a good one.
 
That was my initial attempt and no other devices on the LAN ports of the Netgear received Internet connectivity. Internet connectivity wasn't passed along via wifi connections either.

First Attempt:

Cable Modem -> SonicWall WAN
Sonicwall LAN -> Netgear LAN
Other Devices -> Netgear LAN
 
I was allowing the Netgear to handle the DHCP assignments; the DHCP server was disabled on the SonicWall.

When that failed, I toyed around with the idea of having DHCP enabled on both with different ranges for each (Just taking a shot in the dark at this point).
 
Let the sonicwall handle DHCP and set the netgear as an AP/switch.

BTW I tried ddwrt on my WNDR3700v1...It sucked. Constantly would drop wireless and would need a reboot. Plus it would only go to 130mbps, so I went back to the regular firmware and have had no disconnects or other strange issues (and I'm sitting at 300mbps).
 
I'll give that a shot when I get home.

The issue with dd-wrt was what I was afraid of. The last device I tried dd-wrt on provided a horrible experience even though it was listed as compatible and didn't note any issues in the wiki.
 
WNDR3700v1 works fine on OpenWRT snapshot that about 40 days old.
//Danne
 
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