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kfarstrider
Apr 28, 2021Aspirant
R7800 management interface on a different VLAN?
I have two Nighthawk R7800 routers in my house: one on the first floor and one on the second. The router on the first floor is configured in bridge mode and connects wirelessly to the router on the ...
antinode
Apr 28, 2021Guru
> [...] when I try to set the router's IP to 192.168.100.5, leaving the
> gateway as 192.168.10.1, I get an error that says, "invalid gateway."
Yes, because that's nonsensical. A gateway address for a device must
be on the same subnet as the device itself.
A VLAN does not involve different IP address subnet.
> [...] is it possible to have the management interface on
> 192.168.100.0/24 while still keeping connected devices in
> 192.168.10.0/24?
No. The router's management (web site) interface is always on the
router's own LAN subnet.
General advice: You might have more success if you described
(clearly) the actual problem which you are trying to solve, rather than
asking how to implement some particular "solution" ("VLAN") which may
have little or nothing to do with the actual problem (whatever it might
be).