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Nighthawk X10 router mode - no NAT
So I suspect I know the answer looking at the UI and this forum but is there an option, or is one planned, to allow this expensive router to actually route rather than doing NAT? Thanks!
Going to leave this to die now. In the interim I'm going to raise a complaint with the UK's Advertising Standards Authority alongside some other local bodies - Netgear are selling a router that doesn't actually route to and from the Internet, it's a NAT gateway. They are not the same thing.
Tried writing to a couple of senior people at Netgear and was greeted with total ignorance. No mail from them, unsurprising, or from a representative in some kind of escalation point.
Netgear wireless NAT gateways seem to point to that however good the hardware is poorly written and specified firmware will always bring it down.
The X10 is going to follow the Linksys EA9500 that was returned previously. That may have been faulty but at least it was a router that could, ya know, route between LAN and WAN.
Wonder which laughing, joking numb-nuts thought it'd be funny not to bother with routing across the WAN-LAN dataplane but to put a RIP daemon in the software, presumably for those really complicated home networks that need dynamic routing on the LAN but are fine with mandatory NAT between LAN and WAN.
After a bit of a fight I've managed to raise a support ticket. Logging into My Netgear the support path just didn't work.
Going to leave this to die now. In the interim I'm going to raise a complaint with the UK's Advertising Standards Authority alongside some other local bodies - Netgear are selling a router that doesn't actually route to and from the Internet, it's a NAT gateway. They are not the same thing.
Tried writing to a couple of senior people at Netgear and was greeted with total ignorance. No mail from them, unsurprising, or from a representative in some kind of escalation point.
Netgear wireless NAT gateways seem to point to that however good the hardware is poorly written and specified firmware will always bring it down.
The X10 is going to follow the Linksys EA9500 that was returned previously. That may have been faulty but at least it was a router that could, ya know, route between LAN and WAN.
Wonder which laughing, joking numb-nuts thought it'd be funny not to bother with routing across the WAN-LAN dataplane but to put a RIP daemon in the software, presumably for those really complicated home networks that need dynamic routing on the LAN but are fine with mandatory NAT between LAN and WAN.