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WAX630 - two SSIDs, one bridged, the other NATed
Hello, we're trying to setup some WAX630 with two SSIDs. Everything is working fine, until you set SSID 1 to bridged mode and SSID 2 to NAT mode, then clients in SSID 1 don't get IPs (v4) assigned. ...
schumakuthank you
Maybe my initial post was a bit confusing. sorry for that.
We don't want to configure a Wireless Bridge/ WDS. i just was really puzzled, why clients don't get IP(v4) address, when connected to SSID 1 bridged network, while SSID 2 is configured as NAT (SSID 2 works fine in this scenario).
But maybe it's not meant to be like that.
Anyways, my solution was to set up an additional vlan for SSID 2...which i should have done right at the beginning (i thought i could be lazy...).
No problem 8-)
In my understanding (and based on similar set-up of course), you can operate one or multiple SSIDs (technically bridged) to the same VLAN. Adding a NAT capability on the WAX SSID can also use the very same SSID and IP subnet as the target for the many2one NAT. Same applies to configurations with Insight Mesh (multiple wire-less WAX satellite [no LAN connection to the primary network] groups which can be assigned to a root WAX (and a backup root). Afraid, no practical experience with the classic manual pure WDS-bridge config.
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