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Rax35 Wireless Bridge Mode unavailable in web gui
Can't seem to find the bridge mode and I've looked everywhere. Updated to latest firmware also
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Did you end up finding it? I just pulled the trigger but will be mad if I can't use it as a bridge!
Hello JTagorda & ThePiston450,
The RAX35 currently supports WiFi Access Point. You may find more info on page 90 of the user manual linked below.
http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RAX35/RAX35_UM_EN.pdf
Christian
I agree there is something wrong here. I picked up one of these (Nighthawk RAX35) routers on black friday sale and have put about 8 hours wrestling with it trying to get the AP mode to work. Anyone get it to work yet? I can set the unit up as a router and wireless clients will browse web as normal but when switching it to AP mode dhcp times out (computer self assigns IP) even though I have an edge router doing the dhcp. The other oddity is this unit registers three mac addresses and I captured all of them on the edge router connect list and set a dhcp reservation so when any of those mac addresses connected it would be assigned a certain ip address. Only during router mode will any of them show up on the edge router (which is a netgear 7450) but when switching to AP mode the unit disappears from the universe and the only way to find it is to factory reset it. Going to try setting a static IP and see if that makes a difference. All LED's are green and showing connectivity on the router but nothing gets an IP when connecting.
Replying to my own post. Reset rax35 to factory, started config over again and set to AP mode and the static ip and mac address do not show up in the edge router. I assigned to an IP not within the dhcp range so would not conflict. Lights are all green on router but no traffic passing through it. I updated to the latest firmware as of 12/2/2019. Anyone have a tech support ticket in on this yet?
Netgear Support. This is absolute hot garbage that you do not support bridge mode even though your documnetation says bridge mode is supported. I am returning this device and posting the worst possible review.
JTagorda wrote:
Can't seem to find the bridge mode and I've looked everywhere. Updated to latest firmware also
jdh2n_atl wrote:
Netgear Support. This is absolute hot garbage that you do not support bridge mode even though your documnetation says bridge mode is supported. I am returning this device and posting the worst possible review.
JTagorda wrote:
Can't seem to find the bridge mode and I've looked everywhere. Updated to latest firmware alsoIf you read the messages before yours, you will see that some RAX models support wireless bridging. (I assume that is what you mean by "bridge", a term that gets used in different ways, including "a bridge for a port group or VLAN tag group".)
The way to work out what a device can do is to look for "Set Up the Router in Bridge Mode" in the manual. It will appear alongside "Set Up the Router in Router Mode".
This appears in the manuals for thew RAX120, RAX75 and RAX80.
The same explanation appears in manuals for a handful of other routers. (In the current range, the R7000 is probably the most pop[ular.) Older manuals sometimes use the term Wireless Distribution System (WDS) to describe this function.
As you would expect, the data sheets for devices describe what they do support, not what they don't support. So the manual really is the only place to confirm that a router does what you want.
If you can point to documentation that claims support for "wireless bridging", just shout and we'll see that it gets through to the right people.
- http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RAX35/RAX35_UM_EN.pdf
Tip: If the router is in access point mode or bridge mode and you do not know the IP address that is assigned to it, first try to use an IP scanner application to detect the IP address. (IP scanner applications are available online free of charge.) If you can detect the IP address, you don’t need to reset the router to factory default settings.
This is not talking about vLan bridge but wireless bridge.
- It’s disabled in the firmware. The html code is commented out and the .cgi file that controls the connection to another AP SSID is missing. Netgear did not include the functionality for the RAX40 and RAX35... you can download the open source Firmware code and see for yourself.
I won't disagree with you, but can't argue that the option is in the GUI, and according to the changelog:
https://kb.netgear.com/000061320/RAX35-Firmware-Version-1-0-3-62
Bug Fixes:
- In AP mode, blocked device can now display the access control blocked page.c
- The Wireless AP page under advanced settings can now scroll to the bottom
Sad because this is really basic networking stuff that Netgear has been doing for a long time.
- Being a developer myself, I can read the code and see the the html was commented out. This is the that displays the option for wireless bridge mode. Also, change log says “VLAN bridge mode now works.” I am talking about wireless bridge mode... very different...
