i have a wavelan outdoor router in AP configuration that provides 2.4 to wifi ip cameras (AP/cam branch). this is connected to a netgear r7000 that is a gateway for the entire system. the r7000 does ip assignment/reserved addresses for all devices in the system including the AP/cam branch. of course the broadband from the DSL modem (bridge mode) is available to this AP/cam branch, which needs to change.

it seems that if the broadband port on the gateway was assignable to various physical ports on the r7000 gateway, this would be a simple task, but idk if this feature is available on any configuration software or router? all that would be necessary for this would be to block dsl from the port the AP/cam branch connects to..

in lieu of the above, it seems that moving this AP/cam branch to another router will work fine. enter an r7850 for this duty. it will not be connected to the r7000. it will have NO broadband. it will also use a different address range. 192.168.0.x (r7850) vs 192.168.1.x (r7000). this will be an isolated private network.

when i move the AP ethernet cable from the r7000 to the r7850 if the addresses are kept the same as on the AP/cam branch connected to the r7000 (192.168.1.x), everything works fine, but we can't keep the same addresses.

but when the addresses are assigned in the new range (192.168.0.x) in the r7850 it does not work, even though the r7850 is set as dhcp & the addresses are reserved. wow.

all of the configuration software is the updated factory standard.

so solving this is a bit beyond me.

can anyone please help?

thanks much.

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