canuck in the wilderness
Occasional Visitor
I live in the great wilderness of Canada - my internet would be nonexistent except for my radio connections (Ubiquiti) which bring me signal from 25 km (15 mi) away. This introduces a few issues.
I have one radio connection to my modem in town; I pull 2 static addresses to two routers without a problem. One manages the radios only, but also has a public address for when I'm away from home; the other is my internal network at home. Home router (Asus N66U) supplies dhcp to internal devices.
(I also have a s-l-o-w backup ISP in case my main internet goes down - not an issue at the moment.)
My main ISP supplies several dhcp addresses as well if I want them. Today I got a new Asus AC68U and wanted to test it, thinking that I can grab a dynamic address. Up until now all connections were running through a dumb d-link unmanaged switch ("modem/radios" >> routers 1 & 2 and various devices).
Plugging in the 68U it simply grabs an address from the 66U - clearly not what I want.
Unplugging the LAN connection from the 66U > switch to prevent the dhcp reaching the 68U, I still can't pull a dynamic address at all from the ISP in the 68U - which surprised me as it is all still connected to the modem via the radio link. [Logic says that if a static router can pull its address from the same configuration/wiring, I should be able to get a dhcp address, too. Apparently logic is wrong.]
So I set up the GS108TP - first as a dumb switch - same result. I then tried to create, using the reference guides on SNB here, three VLANs:
VLAN 10 - Internet: untagged - all ports (modem/radios connected to port 1)
VLAN 20: static routers - untagged - all ports except #3 (blank) - to prevent dhcp from 66U > 68U; both static routers and all internal devices connected here
VLAN 30: dchp routers - untagged - only ports 1 and 3 (68U attached on port 3)
Still no joy on pulling a dhcp address to the 68U on port 3 and worse: ALL LEDs started blinking simultaneously. I have no idea why they would do that.
Clearly I'm missing something (or a lot!) - can anyone suggest how to get this to work?
I have one radio connection to my modem in town; I pull 2 static addresses to two routers without a problem. One manages the radios only, but also has a public address for when I'm away from home; the other is my internal network at home. Home router (Asus N66U) supplies dhcp to internal devices.
(I also have a s-l-o-w backup ISP in case my main internet goes down - not an issue at the moment.)
My main ISP supplies several dhcp addresses as well if I want them. Today I got a new Asus AC68U and wanted to test it, thinking that I can grab a dynamic address. Up until now all connections were running through a dumb d-link unmanaged switch ("modem/radios" >> routers 1 & 2 and various devices).
Plugging in the 68U it simply grabs an address from the 66U - clearly not what I want.
Unplugging the LAN connection from the 66U > switch to prevent the dhcp reaching the 68U, I still can't pull a dynamic address at all from the ISP in the 68U - which surprised me as it is all still connected to the modem via the radio link. [Logic says that if a static router can pull its address from the same configuration/wiring, I should be able to get a dhcp address, too. Apparently logic is wrong.]
So I set up the GS108TP - first as a dumb switch - same result. I then tried to create, using the reference guides on SNB here, three VLANs:
VLAN 10 - Internet: untagged - all ports (modem/radios connected to port 1)
VLAN 20: static routers - untagged - all ports except #3 (blank) - to prevent dhcp from 66U > 68U; both static routers and all internal devices connected here
VLAN 30: dchp routers - untagged - only ports 1 and 3 (68U attached on port 3)
Still no joy on pulling a dhcp address to the 68U on port 3 and worse: ALL LEDs started blinking simultaneously. I have no idea why they would do that.
Clearly I'm missing something (or a lot!) - can anyone suggest how to get this to work?