Issue with setting up an airport extreme basetstation and zyxel vfg6005


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So, I am not sure what I am doing wrong on this setup. I picked up a zyxel vfg6005 vpn router and have that working great. It is handling all of my traffic and is acting as my dhcp server now. The cable modem connects into the wan port.

Here is the current setup I have:

lan 1: mac mini

lan 2: switch

lan 3: airport extreme basestation

So based on this setup I now just want the basestation to handle the wireless. So I set it to bridge mode to turn off the dhcp, made sure the wireless was in the create a wireless network mode, and one would thing that that should be it. But it is not working at all. No device will connect to it.

Any clue what I am doing wrong?

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Been a couple months since I was digging around inside my airport ( replaced it with linksys ).

But I think you want to put it back in router mode, turn off dhcp, should connect fine, I Think I had issues with bridge mode with mine also.

Had mine hooked up doing the wireless connected to WRT54G2, and I don't think I had bridge mode toggled. Just turned off DHCP that was it.

When I get home I can connect it back up and take a look at its settings, rarely had to change anything in it.

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Been a couple months since I was digging around inside my airport ( replaced it with linksys ).

But I think you want to put it back in router mode, turn off dhcp, should connect fine, I Think I had issues with bridge mode with mine also.

Had mine hooked up doing the wireless connected to WRT54G2, and I don't think I had bridge mode toggled. Just turned off DHCP that was it.

When I get home I can connect it back up and take a look at its settings, rarely had to change anything in it.

Where does one turn off dhcp in the basestation without putting it into bridge mode?

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Where does one turn off dhcp in the basestation without putting it into bridge mode?

Had to go to the manual setup stuff I think. I didn't like the setup wizard crap

*edit - ill hook mine back up when I get home, won't be for another 3-4 hours though

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Had to go to the manual setup stuff I think. I didn't like the setup wizard crap

*edit - ill hook mine back up when I get home, won't be for another 3-4 hours though

That would be great if you could. I went through my basestation again (5th gen) and looked at the internet settings. I only have the options to share a public ip address, distribute a range of ip addresses, or off - bridge. You'd think this would be easy.

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just checked it, apparently i did have it in bridge mode.

do you have it in 5GHz or 2.4 ?

*edit - just hooked it back up to the router, with me currently connecting to the Airport, only diffrence i see is the Airport IS managing DHCP ( the DHCP is on both routers )

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just checked it, apparently i did have it in bridge mode.

do you have it in 5GHz or 2.4 ?

*edit - just hooked it back up to the router, with me currently connecting to the Airport, only diffrence i see is the Airport IS managing DHCP ( the DHCP is on both routers )

I have the wireless set to automatic in terms of 5/2.4. If I have dchp turned on on both....how to I prevent arp caching?

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I have the wireless set to automatic in terms of 5/2.4. If I have dchp turned on on both....how to I prevent arp caching?

Eh? you talking about IP conflicts ? both routers will see what port the packets are from and route accordingly. you may have problems direct connecting ( aka telnetting or network browsing ) to devices across the networks.

there is also the IPv6 that is enabled on the airport and supported by your other router ( i dont think you can turn it off on the airport )

*edit - you have a newer router and guessing dual wireless. cause i dont have an option to enable 2.4 AND 5, for me its one or the other.

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if you ahve both radios going, try disabling 1 of them.

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Eh? you talking about IP conflicts ? both routers will see what port the packets are from and route accordingly. you may have problems direct connecting ( aka telnetting or network browsing ) to devices across the networks.

there is also the IPv6 that is enabled on the airport and supported by your other router ( i dont think you can turn it off on the airport )

*edit - you have a newer router and guessing dual wireless. cause i dont have an option to enable 2.4 AND 5, for me its one or the other.

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if you ahve both radios going, try disabling 1 of them.

I shall try this and see how it works.

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So an update:

I honestly don't know if the zxyel and the basestation just won't play nicely or if I am just plain missing something but it still not working. But this is where I am at. I set the basestation back to normal dhcp mode and assigned it the ip range of .200-.253. The zxyel router is set at .1 and assigns ip from .2 - .199. The basestation gets the .2 ip.

So, the wireless devices can now connect to the basestation (i.e my mbp gets assign .203) but won't connect to the internet. I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

Current setup:

zxyel router

wan - cable modem

lan 1 - mac mini

lan 2 - switch

lan 3 - basestation (connected via wan on basestation to lan 3 on zxyel)

could use some help.

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Saw your PM.. Here is what I would suggest -- throw the freaking apple product out the window ;)

Come on they are suppose to just work right!! So where is turn of dhcp server checkbox/radiobutton - every other router on the planet its 1 click to enable/disable dhcp server! They design their products for their userbase, which are complete and utter moronic sheep that stand in line to spend 4x what the hardware and software is worth!

example

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I could post example of 15 other router models where its the same thing -- click on dhcp, click off dhcp server.

here is my router

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They dumb down the interface to a point that its completely and utterly pathetic!!

This is just my person point of view and trying to help my sister in law with her apple - I told her up front, don't buy it.. But its so easy to use she says.. Then why and the F are you having to ask me so many questions?? Why do I have to always drop to a command line on your mac to get anything done? ;) At least from the command line its pretty much like any other linux distro.. Which if you would just use that -- than I could help you.

You can not even create shortcuts to software easy on that freaking crap!

I would love to help, with any other router is a NO BRAINER to use it as just an accesspoint... You turn off dhcp, you plug into one of the lan ports - shazam its a accesspoint. How you do it on a airport I have no idea -- Good Luck!

/my antiapple rant of the month ;)

BTW -- I love to have an ipad to play with.. But sorry not going to spend the money when I can get 3x the hardware for 1/2 the cost ;)

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Saw your PM.. Here is what I would suggest -- throw the freaking apple product out the window ;)

Come on they are suppose to just work right!! So where is turn of dhcp server checkbox/radiobutton - every other router on the planet its 1 click to enable/disable dhcp server! They design their products for their userbase, which are complete and utter moronic sheep that stand in line to spend 4x what the hardware and software is worth!

example

post-14624-0-82553300-1335408563.jpg

I could post example of 15 other router models where its the same thing -- click on dhcp, click off dhcp server.

here is my router

post-14624-0-71056800-1335408647.jpg

They dumb down the interface to a point that its completely and utterly pathetic!!

This is just my person point of view and trying to help my sister in law with her apple - I told her up front, don't buy it.. But its so easy to use she says.. Then why and the F are you having to ask me so many questions?? Why do I have to always drop to a command line on your mac to get anything done? ;) At least from the command line its pretty much like any other linux distro.. Which if you would just use that -- than I could help you.

You can not even create shortcuts to software easy on that freaking crap!

I would love to help, with any other router is a NO BRAINER to use it as just an accesspoint... You turn off dhcp, you plug into one of the lan ports - shazam its a accesspoint. How you do it on a airport I have no idea -- Good Luck!

/my antiapple rant of the month ;)

BTW -- I love to have an ipad to play with.. But sorry not going to spend the money when I can get 3x the hardware for 1/2 the cost ;)

I know that the interface isn't all that great but I love how much coverage the wifi gives me. There isn't a spot in my townhouse that doesn't work now compared to the dlink or cisco ones that I have had. Besides, one you get it the way you want you don't go into the gui all that often.

That being said and the basestation aside, is there something on the networking side that I am missing?

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