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RAXE500 The IP address conflicts with the WAN IP subnet
I am in the process of configuring my RAXE500 to join my LAN. It currently acts as its own separate LAN - with internet being provided by another router.
I have internet in my house balanced by the QNAP QHora 301-W, which takes in sources from 4Gbps Hyperfibre, 4G, and VDSL connections.
The RAXE500 accesses LAN via a 2.5gbps ethernet cable to a D-Link switch connected to the QHora 301-W.
The RAXE500 offers better signal and faster speeds than the QHora 301-W which is why its WLAN features are used. However, I plan to add three switches to this router, I already own and use these switches, however, want to change the layout, I own 2 GS308EP switches and 1 GS105 switch.
I am going to change it so that the GS105 switch uses LAN1, the 2nd GS308EP switch uses LAN2, and the 1st GS308 EP Switch uses LAN3+LAN4 through LAG.
I originally hoped to set the RAXE500's IP address to that assigned by the QHora 301-W - 192.168.100.132 (rather than the 10.0.0.1 IP address the router set itself up with to avoid duplication), and then set the upper half of DHCP client IDs to be used by the RAXE500 (151-254) and keep the lower half for use by the QHora 301-W (2-150). That way, the devices connected to the switches would be assigned an IP address for the wider LAN, not just the LAN that the RAXE500 is part of.
However, if I attempt to change the IP address of the router to that set by the QHora-301W, The IP address conflicts with the WAN IP subnet appears, and I have very little idea what this means, and all other articles on it have not helped me in any way.
If anyone knows how to solve this issue without switching the router to AP mode - I would be endlessly grateful. I can't switch it to AP mode due to aggregation of the 3+4 ethernet ports as well as QoS.
Also, I am planning to buy the Orbi Pro WiFi 6 (SXK80B4) as the household's mesh system, if I attempted to have it with the same IP address as assigned to the router by the QHora 301-W, would the same issue as with the RAXE500 present itself.
Thanks in advance
Oliver
Hi Everyone.
Sorry it took so long to get a response out.
Shortly after the last message, I spoke to Netgear support — who agreed with me that it was inconsistent that the feature was disabled, but the manual did not specify that it should have been disabled.
So, we climbed up their levels of technicians, and eventually, I was notified that they had changed the setting for the next update, and last I checked it worked fine.
What's the most annoying is that I had to buy a 2.5G netgear switch in the meantime because of the wait.
Now I just use it as a 6GHz router in my computer room. It works great with my iPhone 14 Pro Max and HP ZBook Firefly G10 which both support the band.
Thanks for all your help previously. I have only responded to this now as I have opened another support discussion on my Orbi Pro Mesh system.
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Two routers can NOT be in same subnet when in router mode. So you'll need to use a different LAN subnet (10.0.0.1 or 192.168.1.1) on the RAXE router or configure the RAXE for AP Mode. Then the RAXE would be on same subnet with no duplication.
Is it possible to configure the ethernet port settings while the router is in AP mode?
The port settings would mean that ports 1 and 2 would lead to switches and ports 3 and 4 would be aggregated to a switch as well.
Thanks for your response.
LAG is only supported in router mode I believe.
These two groups of IP addresses are still in two complete different networks - in the sense of IP sub-networking, and in the sense of a single broadcast domain for the DHCP which resides on two different routers. This will never make a single network.
