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Nighthawk RAX6 bridge mode - enterprise network
Hello, I would like to use a Nighthawk RAX6 router to bridge an enterprise wireless network with a small wired network. I applied the settings as suggested in the Netgear KB. After configuration,...
kurt-hectic wrote:
I would like to use a Nighthawk RAX6 router to bridge an enterprise wireless network with a small wired network.
The "bridge" term means different things in different contexts. It also depends on the device you are talking about. (Modems and routers aren't the same, for example.)
RAX6 doesn't tell us which Netgear device you are using. It is just one of the many labels for Wi-Fi technology that Netgear and other brands use. There are about a dozen Wi-Fi 6 devices in the RAX range.
From your message, I suspect that you are trying to use a router to connect two different Internet networks. From what I read here, that is not going to work.
The router is a Netgear RAX50-100EUS .
What should be achieved is that a device (without wireless adapter) on the local "bridged" wired network (LAN port of the router) can connect to the enterprise wireless network as if it had a wireless adapter. No modem is involved in the setup.
The experiment with the mobile phone created wireless network shows that the router can in principle achieve this.
I believe the issue here may be security or other policies implemented by the enterprise wireless network that prevent a connection. Since I cannot connect to the router once it is in bridged mode it is difficult to tell what is wrong.
Thanks
Kurt
Can you tell us more about these two networks?
A domestic router won't connect two different networks with different WAN addresses.