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WAX202 as a secondary router
I would like to use the WAX202 router as a secondary router on a separate subnet on a home network. My main subnet is 192.168.3.0 and the WAX202 will be 192.168.4.0. I would like devices on both to be able to communicate. The devices on the WAX202 network can ping/connect to devices on the 192.168.3.0 network. However devices on the main network cannot ping/connect to devices on the WAX202 network. The WAX202 has a static wan ip address of 192.168.3.2. I have a static route set up on the main router that traffic destined to 192.168.4.0 should route to 192.168.3.2. With other routers and firmwares (openwrt), this was possible. I know I had the disable the firewall and allow all forwarding to/from the WAN<->LAN. Is this possible on the WAX202? Thanks.
Unless I'm missing something essential, this makes devices make up a NAT router only, so configuring a classic IPv4 static routing environment adding a route e.g. from the 192.168.3.0/24 to the 192.168.4.0 /24 subnet is probably not possible. The reason is that the WAX does NAT-block any connection attempts from the "WAN" subnet to the LAN subnet is not possible. You won't be able to talk direct to an address in the WAX202 LAN subnet.
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Unless I'm missing something essential, this makes devices make up a NAT router only, so configuring a classic IPv4 static routing environment adding a route e.g. from the 192.168.3.0/24 to the 192.168.4.0 /24 subnet is probably not possible. The reason is that the WAX does NAT-block any connection attempts from the "WAN" subnet to the LAN subnet is not possible. You won't be able to talk direct to an address in the WAX202 LAN subnet.
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