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eiuwolf
Jul 07, 2022Follower
R900 Issue
I have R900 router. Modem is single port in DHCP ( Charter ). If I feed Netgear (dumb/unmanaged) switch first which then feeds the router and my pc, the router will never go online. If I leave in the...
plemans
Jul 07, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Your isp only supplies 1 public ip address. Its then on whatever it supplies that public ip address to to supply private ip addresses to your devices. Your switch can't supply them as its a simple unmanaged switch. Which is why you need to go modem--->router--->switch/devices.