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Coffee-man
Oct 14, 2020Aspirant
frequent disconnects
Hello and thank you for your help! I have two R7000 rounters connected to the same modem. I have created two different networks, becouse I want some of the devices to be on its own network and s...
- Oct 14, 2020
Using a passthrough-network cascading - not the ideal solution of course.
Introduce a router able to handle two or more networks, on tagged VLAN or untagged dedicated VLAN ports, which can do the NATing accordingly onto one public IP. Something like a Netgear BR200 with dedicated unmanaged switches or switches allowing to configure multiple VLANs, like the Smart Managed Plus units. The R7000/R7000P can be given a second life (I hope) as wireless access points.
schumaku
Oct 14, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Does your ISP support connecting more than one device to the modem? Most ISP offer only one public IP address on consumer and SOHO service levels.
- Coffee-manOct 14, 2020AspirantI’m pretty sure it doesn’t. So what should I do if I want to have multiple networks?
- schumakuOct 14, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Using a passthrough-network cascading - not the ideal solution of course.
Introduce a router able to handle two or more networks, on tagged VLAN or untagged dedicated VLAN ports, which can do the NATing accordingly onto one public IP. Something like a Netgear BR200 with dedicated unmanaged switches or switches allowing to configure multiple VLANs, like the Smart Managed Plus units. The R7000/R7000P can be given a second life (I hope) as wireless access points.
- Coffee-manOct 14, 2020AspirantIs there any chance that connecting one R7000 to another R7000 will work? I don’t have much going on in the shop. One router needs to handle POS, other is for a bunch of ipads and smart home devices, and one more for customers WIFi.
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