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EAX15v3 with WAX630 Wifi bridge
Hi,
I need some help with setup for a Wifi Bridge.
I have a `WiFi 6 AX6000 Tri-Band Multi-Gig Access Point (WAX630)` connected to my router.
This is placed in the garage and provides great wifi to all devices.
Currently i'm on a job to implement a payment terminal, which only support ethernet.
As i don't have LAN connections in the house and my powerline device (Netgear PLP2000) are very unstable, i bought a `AX1800 WiFi Extender (EAX15v3) wifi extender with ethernet connection.
I configured the extender as following
When i connect a laptop with static IP address, it works fine and the laptop shows in the Wired devices on the EAX15v3 device.
When i set the laptop to DHCP, it does not receive an IP and does not show up as connected device.
I also setup with an old Nighthawk RAX50 routes in bridge mode, but same result.
Static IP works fine, DHCP does not receive IP.
All wifi devices receive IP from DHCP without a problem.
Network setup:
DHCP server is running on Netgate pfSense router/firewall.
WAX630 AP is connected to pfSense using a managed switch.
WAX630 AP broadcast 3 SSID on different VLAN.
EAX15v3 is connected to a single VLAN SSID.
EAX15v3 has static IP in the VLAN it connected to.
No clue why DHCP is not working on the wired devices.
Kind regards,
Randy
4 Replies
This is the AP SSID config
Advanced rate selection set to standard
StephenB , i'm not using MAC ACL.
I don't understand the solution of the smart switch. How can that solve the issue?
Currently there is a GS308EPP managed switch between the router and AP (forgot to mention in original post)This one is set to Basic 802.1Q VLAN with the following config, where router is connected to port 1, AP to port 7.
On the EAX15v3 ethernet port i connected aGS108 switch, to support connecting multiple wired devices, but also tested the setup by connect device directly to the EAX15v3
Still have some spare `GS108E` managed switches that i can connect to the EAX15v3 in case that could solve the issue.
Issue might have something to do with VLANs? As the AP broadcast an SSID per VLAN, i would suspect the WIFI client should not be VLAN aware?
Kind regards,
RandyI don't understand the solution of the smart switch. How can that solve the issue?
Currently there is a GS308EPP managed switch between the router and AP (forgot to mention in original post)I was thinking the goal was to get an ethernet port at/near the AP location. Reading again, I am seeing that the goal is to get ethernet somewhere else.
Issue might have something to do with VLANs? As the AP broadcast an SSID per VLAN, i would suspect the WIFI client should not be VLAN aware?
WiFi clients (including the EAX15v3) would not see the VLAN. The AP should be handling the VLAN tag.
I am suspecting that the problem might be the DHCP broadcast to unicast setting in the AP, though I am not seeing exactly why. I'd try disabling that setting next.
That setting tells the AP to convert the DHCP broadcast response from the router to a layer-2 unicast response using the requester's MAC address. In this particular situation, I am not sure whether the AP would use the extender's MAC address or the translated MAC address of the PC.
- If it is using the extender's MAC, then the extender would process the response itself and never send it on to the PC.
- If it is using the translated client address, then I am thinking the AP then might not know that it needs to send the response to the extender.
No clue why DHCP is not working on the wired devices.
Are you using MAC ACL in the router? If you are, then look at pages 41-43 in the extender manual:
- https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/EAX15/EAX15_UM_EN.pdf
FWIW, you could alternatively get a PoE smart switch and install that between the router and the AP. Then use one of those ports.
For instance, the GS310TPv2.
