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Lee McCuller - posted 11:40, Monday 04 November 2024 (11961)
B102 router now in access point mode (and had a hard reset)

I've been trying to make the wireless work well with the new subnet. Looks like the only way to do it is to switch the router into access point mode, where it just acts like a switch that included connections over wireless. It forwards the outer network's DHCP and other broadcasts.

The downside of this mode is that it can't use the VPN feature on the router, but we will eventually get that more natively on our network (using CIT credentials) once they set it up.

I tried several things before settling on AP mode. You can attempt to connect the WAN through one of the LAN ports and disable DHCP + NAT, but I never could get it to pass the outer network DHCP, so I gave up. In the process, I accidentally put an access restriction on the user interface and locked myself (or anyone..) out of the machine. Thus I reset it. We lost the existing IP/MAC assignments, but we shouldn't need them anymore on the new network.

The VPN is also down now.

The IPADs on the wireless should see wired Mokus and should see devices from the other lab. You can move the router into B111 if needed, and we should buy more access points.