Thanks again Sam - you're a star! :) I'll leave that for the moment until I've got time and a large mug of coffee, but it's filed for future action.
Regards, Stephen On 29 Jul 2012, at 19:52, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: > One last thing. If you want the AE to create a guest network, it must be the > DHCP server on the network, which will conflict with the netgear unless if > you do this : > > On the NetGear's configuration page, then WAN Setup and set the DMZ to > 192.168.0.2 > On the Airport Express, connect to the NetGear via the Internet port (not LAN > port) and set it to "Share a Single IP Address" instead of Bridge Mode > On the NetGear, go to LAN setup and reserve the IP address 192.168.0.2 for > the AE base station (you'll need the WAN port's MAC address for this). For > instance if the AE's WAN MAC address is 00:12:34:56:78 then use that to > reserve 192.168.0.2. This will make sure the AE always gets the same IP > address, and make sure it's the DMZ on the network (DMZ means all traffic > through the firewall is sent directly to this device). > > This will mean you're not using double NAT as all the data goes through the > NetGear's firewall to the AE, where it's then distributed to the correct > device. Again, the AE must be doing the job of DHCP server in order to create > a guest wifi network. You can't just switch off the DHCP server on the > NetGear and turn it on on the AE as the AE's DHCP settings are a bit > restrictive so you can't specify a different router other than itself. > > Only thing to make sure is that the AE doesn't create a network on the > 192.186.0.x subnet as that'll be the same as the NetGear server and the > network will get confused. > > Hope that's not too confusing. I'm more than happy to log in remotely if you > want to turn on remote management on the router and send me the necessary > details. > > Regards > > Sam > "Since 2002, we've lost Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, Steve Jobs and Jimmy Saville. Now, we have no Cash, no jobs, no hope and no-one to fix it." ~ Unknown -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
