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Nighthawk M1- Ethernet Port
Hello All, I have a Nighthawk M1 devce and its working just fine, however I have a question regarding the use of the ethernet port... I have been unable to get this to behave in a manner that I w...
Wazzal,
Connecting a switch to the M1 ethernet port so that all other devices connected to the switch are assigned local IP addresses should work by default out of the box.
The M1 will act as a DHCP server for all clients connected to the switch.
Devices will be assigned local IP addresses in a configurable range (default: 192.168.1.20+).
This is same default subnet used by WiFi devices connected to the M1.
Note that you may need to try connecting the client devices to the switch after the switch connected to M1 and M1 running.
This is to ensure the client devices trigger a DCHP request to the M1.
Colin,
When you state "when the device is restarted (and even rebooted)", can you clarify if you are describing when the M1 restarts/reboots or the connected DGND3700v2 router restarts/reboots.
Thanks
Steve
Hi Steve,
yes it is when the M1 restarts or reboots (restart due to port forwarding change and reboot from web portal). Note the the M1 LAN to DGND3700v2 WAN is up and functional prior to the M1 restart/reboot. From the DGND3700v2 you can see the IP change to 0.0.0.0 after M1 restart/reboot and not recover without maunal intervention. Also note that prior to this issue I change the IP in the M1 to refelct subnet 192.168.10.x with DHCP On so as not to conflict with my existing home network which runs 192.168.1.x (as well as others).
Steve is there a way to assign a static IP to the LAN port so that I can DMZ that IP ? In the manual it says you can only DMZ an IP.
Hi Colin,
Thanks for the detailed response.
I have been discussing internally and may have an idea on what you are seeing.
I will ask one of our support reps to reach out to you to gather further info.
Steve
Could it be that a switch may work in the Etherrnet port if a cross over ethernet cable is used? All the evidence points towards the possibilty that this Ethernet port is a switched port and hence requires a crossover cable. Can someone test this?
This is not likely to be an issue due to MDI-X support, cossover cables are now mostly non existant due to this.. note that only one connected device needs to support this and in my case the switch I use does... I don't know whether the Nighthawk supports MDI-X, but I would be surprised if it did not.