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Disabling NAT
I have an R6400 Nighthawk, and I'm trying to use it as a router/gateway/dhcpd, without NAT, so that the wireless hosts and hosts on the WAN network can all talk to each other by their respective IPs. I looked at the "Bridge" settings, but it seems this is only in reference to connecting wirelessly two wifi routers. I also looked at the VLAN/Bridge settings, but every time I try to enable VLAN/Bridge, the router becomes completely unresponsive after reboot; in that no communications can be made the router over wifi, the WAN port, or any of the LAN ports. I have to restore the device to factory defaults if I have any hope of ever contacting it again. I even played with static routes in the hopes of getting it to work, is the R6400 not able to simply be a router between it's wireless network and WAN port? There is the AP mode, which I think might do what I want, but the Nighthawk will then grey out lots of features. Routing features, DHCP services are greyed out, restricting connections by MAC address, even traffic stats are greyed out as well.
Home routers generally have no way to turn off NAT, and Nighthawk routers are no exception.
Are WAN devices on the internet, or are they on a local network that is immediately upstream of the router???
There is the AP mode, which I think might do what I want, but the Nighthawk will then grey out lots of features. Routing features, DHCP services are greyed out, restricting connections by MAC address, even traffic stats are greyed out as well.AP mode doesn't route at all. It provides WiFi for the main network, and the ethernet is simply switched onto the main network. Routing and DHCP are handled by the upstream router.
That is the closest mode to what you want.
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What you want to do (i.e. disable NAT but still function as a router/DHCPD) is not supported.
Can you explain why you want this functionality?
Home routers generally have no way to turn off NAT, and Nighthawk routers are no exception.
Are WAN devices on the internet, or are they on a local network that is immediately upstream of the router???
There is the AP mode, which I think might do what I want, but the Nighthawk will then grey out lots of features. Routing features, DHCP services are greyed out, restricting connections by MAC address, even traffic stats are greyed out as well.AP mode doesn't route at all. It provides WiFi for the main network, and the ethernet is simply switched onto the main network. Routing and DHCP are handled by the upstream router.
That is the closest mode to what you want.
