I have an R7000 as my main router connect to the ONT/Modem. I have an ethernet cord going from the LAN of R7000 to the WAN of the R7000P. The R7000P is in AP mode. The main router (R7000) has wifi disabled. I cant seem to find where to turn DHCP off on the R7000P. Here is images of the connection. Should I just disable the DHCP on the R7000 since i dont even have wifi active on it??? Any advice would be appreciated
I did a factory reset on the R7000P and reconfigured it as an AP. I set a static IP of 192.168.1.2 for the R7000P from the r7000 interface. As you can see from the images below.
> I have an R7000 as my main router connect to the ONT/Modem. I have an > ethernet cord going from the LAN of R7000 to the WAN of the R7000P. The > R7000P is in AP mode. The main router (R7000) has wifi disabled. > [...]
Then what's the point of using both the R7000 and the R7000P? Are other client devices connected to the R7000? If not, then what's the R7000 doing for you which the R7000P couldn't do by itself?
How, exactly, did you configure the R7000P "in AP mode"? Did you follow the procedure in the R7000P User Manual under "Use the Router as a WiFi Access Point", or some other scheme (namely?)?
> [...] I cant seem to find where to turn DHCP off on the R7000P. Here > is images of the connection. [...]
Plenty of context missing from those pictures.
Using ADVANCED > Advanced Setup > Router / AP / Bridge Mode : AP Mode should disable the DHCP server as part of the "AP Mode" configuration.
I don't have an R7000P, so I can't test it, and so I know nothing, but it's possible that the "DHCP On" status which you're seeing in that "LAN Port" status report is erroneous/misleading. It might reflect what would be true if the R7000P were in full-function Router mode, but be meaningless in any other mode.
> [...] Should I just disable the DHCP on the R7000 since i dont even > have wifi active on it???
No. The real mystery here is why the R7000 is involved in the first place. If you're using the R7000 as a router, with the R7000P as a WAP, then you'd want a DHCP server someplace, and, when configured as a WAP, the R7000P won't be doing that job. That leaves only the R7000 to be your DHCP server.
Disabling the wireless-network radios in the R7000 does not stop it from being a router.
Are you seeing any actual operational problems, or is "DHCP On" your only complaint? If you really did have multiple (uncoordinated) DHCP servers running on your LAN, _then_ I'd expect to see abundant problems caused by IP-address conflicts.
> You haven't set your R7000P in proper Access Point mode, then
Or, as I claim, the report is misleading.
> If AP is active, your main router (R7000) should assign an IP to it, > [...]
Like, say, "192.168.1.2", as shown in that "LAN Port" status
report in the picture? Seems (to me) to be working as expected.
Lacking any report to the contrary, I believe that the R7000 is acting as a router (with an active DHCP server), and the R7000P is acting as a WAP (without an active DHCP server), and everything is fine, except for that misleading "LAN Port" status report.
The only remaining mystery is what value the R7000 is adding to this equipment pile.
> [...] I set a static IP [address] of 192.168.1.2 for the R7000P from > the r7000 interface.
Terminology: A "static" address is configured on the device itself. What you configure on a (DHCP server on a) router is a reserved dynamic address, not a static address. Either one should fix the address of a device, but some implications are different.
That sounds as if you were following the User Manual, and chose the default, "Get dynamically from existing router." (Note, "dynamically", not "static". "Use fixed IP settings on this device (not recommended)" is how you tell it to use a static LAN IP address, which you'd configure manually under ADVANCED > Setup > LAN Setup : LAN TCP/IP Setup : ...)
My conclusions remain unchanged (but I'm always open to actual evidence, or a good counter-argument).
3500 sq ft house. The utility room upstairs Is where the builder ran all the fiber to. So the ONT is in there with the r7000. Wifi signal was weak in most of the house. So I disabled the wifi on the R7000 and I ran ethernet from LAN1 of R7000 down to the laundry room which is smack in the middle of the house. Hooked it up to WAN R7000P which I then setup in AP mode. LAN2 on R7000 runs to my Xbox downstairs. LAN3 to my office and LAN4 to the master bedroom.
