RAXE500 The IP address conflicts with the WAN IP subnet

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schumaku wrote:

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michaelkenward wrote:

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oliversimpson wrote:

I agree. There does not seem to be any limitation on the manual, however, when I did put it into AP mode, I could not access the Ethernet Settings.

 

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Disabled Features on the Router when set to AP Mode | Answer | NETGEAR Support

 

Might help if you told people what the ultimate aim of your quest is.

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The OP want to configure a LAG (using ADVANCED > Advanced Setup > Ethernet Port Aggregation) wit the RAXE500 in AP mode.

That describe what they want to do in the router's settings. not what they want to achieve.

The two are by no means identical.

PS Why is your reply such a mess, with all those repeated bits and pieces? Another artefact of Netgear's hopeless implementation of the Lithium community software?

My ultimate quest is to link all of my gigabit switches, of which there are three, through the RAXE500.

I want my first GS308EP to connect to the RAXE500 through LAN2.

I want my second GS308EP through aggregate (803.3ad) to LAN3 and LAN4. This is because of the bandwidth of the devices connected - multiple gigabit hungry computers, a NAS with aggregate of 2x 1GbE connection, among other devices. When the router was in router mode, 803.3ad mode was on for both the switch and the router and it improved bandwidth and increased the average speeds that each device was getting individually, but the computers could not use the printers and be easily/centrally managed.

I then want my GS305 to connect to the RAXE500 through LAN1.

In my opinion, this simplifies the layout of switches going from the router. Since the QHora 301-W has two of its 4 1GbE LAN ports used as WAN for load-balancing, even if I put one or two of the switches onto it, the other one or two would have to go off the RAXE500 anyway.

The 301-W does not support 803.3ad which if it did would solve all the problems.

Then, if all DHCP ids are assigned from the 301-W, that way I just have one simplified LAN - with an AP as the RAXE500 and then APs with the Orbi, with all devices connecting being managed by the 301-W.

This then allows all devices - printers etc to be used by any device connected anywhere on the LAN.

Appreciate the help so far and apologise for my late responses. I will try if I get a chance to give the Netgear support people a call - and see if they can offer any advice.

As I sit writing this, I do consider that hosting a VPN from the 301-W, and then connecting the RAXE500 to that 301-W's VPN (tricking it to thinking it's tunnelling halfway around the world but it is just a 2m Cat8 Cable) and that way all of the devices should* see each other?

All though I'd prefer that to be a short term solution lol.

Amazing, considering you have a great router at hand, with sufficient bandwidth and two 10 GbE/MultiGig ports - both or at least one unused as far as I understand.

If I have to add more ports and bandwidth I would look into the various Netgear 10GbE/MultiGig switch offerings (in fact I have such an installation around a QHora-301W) or have an eye on the QHora-322 with three 10 GbE (MultiGig capable) and not less than six 2.5 GbE ports - because the Netgear PR60X is unfortunately limited to two WAN ports (sorry Netgear, we are talking for years now).

Not a secret: My home and a larger venue network I'm operating is built using Netgear WAX6xx on Netgear MS510TXUP (plus some XS728T/XS748T for legacy GbE copper Ethernet devices) switches with an mostly fiber backhaul. Playground does also contain a MS108EUP, GS308E, GS105PE, and some Essential APs like WAX214/214v2, WAX220 to help out the community members here.

Looking forward for the feedback of the Netgear support reply ref. RAX500E in AP mode and the link aggregation ideas.

Any progress or updates on this? 

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oliversimpson wrote:

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.

 

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Just wondering if you still have your RAXE500? 

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oliversimpson wrote:

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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