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We have quite a few of the Business class WAX214 AP's and need to remotely manage these AP's in the absence of Insight management capability, previous versions of Netgear's AP's (WAC205/WAC210) do su...
TonyTaylor wrote:
Netgear's AP's (WAC205/WAC210) do support this function
Not sure what product you are referring to here, and what kind of remote access should have been available earlier.
TonyTaylor wrote:
The situation is that you can only manage the WAX214 from the local LAN whereas we need to have some sort of remote access to support configuration changes and such, i.e. from the Internet across a router using a public IP address and specific port No. which then forwards (via port forwarding) towards the AP on the local LAN.
Nothing specifically required to configure on the WAX21x in my opinion - a simple port forwarding from a random/available port on a router (the WX21x are not routers), considering the default gateway and subnet mask et all are properly configured, should do the job. This should (technically) work, the Web page should render, and you should be able to login.
However, I don't like the idea to promote any random port exposing a system which is not intended to be exposed to the wild Internet.
The WAX21x are intended as standalone wireless APs, while the WAX6xx are intended for the optional Netgear Insight cloud management.
Talking of "real" business AP deployments, the de-facto standards are at least some kind of VPN usage for any kind of remote management, ideally paired with dedicated VLANs to isolate the management from the data/user traffic.