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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
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 also
If 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.
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.