So close....but lost ability to login to station side of nano5 bridge

[Trizzly]

With the help of alot of you, I have successfully setup a bridge using two nanostation5's. The link itself is working great. My setup is as follows.

DSL > Linksys > Computer1 & Nano5 ----------- Nano5 > Netgear > Computer2

Using computer1 I can login to the access point side of the bridge but not the station side. I was able to login to both nano5's but once i added the netgear into the equation, I lost the ability to login to the station side. The netgear is currently using DHCP with the nano5 plugged into the WAN port. Any ideas? Thanks.

[netsplice]

are you able not able to login from either side of the network. meaning... from the computer 1 location or the computer 2 location?

what ip's do you have assigned?

[Trizzly]

Thanks once again Netsplice for coming to the rescue. I cannot login to the station side from either computer 1 or computer 2.

Nano1 IP is 192.168.2.105
Nano2 IP is 192.168.2.106

I can see these from my linksys router.

[UBNT-Mike.Ford]

Thanks once again Netsplice for coming to the rescue. I cannot login to the station side from either computer 1 or computer 2.

Nano1 IP is 192.168.2.105
Nano2 IP is 192.168.2.106

I can see these from my linksys router.

Hello,

Can you make sure they both have proper DNS and Gateway ettings. Also please post the configurartion file from the Station side.

Thanks,

[Trizzly]

Hello,

Can you make sure they both have proper DNS and Gateway ettings. Also please post the configurartion file from the Station side.

Thanks,

Well I followed the tutorial found on the UBNT wiki for 'Bridging Internet connections and LAN's with UBNT Gear'. So I am using DHCP and therefore dont have control over the DNS and gateway settings.

[netsplice]

is the ip of the linksys router 192.168.2.1? or 192.168.1.1? you need to make sure that the gateway is set to the ip of the linksys router and that the network is the same as the linksys

so if the linksys is 192.168.2.1 just go change the gateway on both to that.

if the linksys router is 192.168.1.1 you need to make sure that the nanos have the ip as 192.168.1.105 and .106

hope that makes sense.

[Trizzly]

The IP on the linksys is in fact 192.168.2.1.

However within the Nano's I am using DHCP, like the tutorial indicated, so I cannot change the DNS or Gateway settings.

I just dont understand how one day I can login in. The next day I add in the netgear and now can no longer login.

[Trizzly]

Anybody?

I cannot post config files from the Station side because I cannot login to it anymore.

It is setup exactly as described in the wiki tutorial for transparent bridgeing.

[UBNT-Mike.Ford]

Anybody?

I cannot post config files from the Station side because I cannot login to it anymore.

It is setup exactly as described in the wiki tutorial for transparent bridgeing.

Hello,

Please visit http://www.ubnt.com/support and download the Discovery Utility. Please run this and find the new IP address of the units and log into them that way.

Thanks,

Mike

[Trizzly]

Mike the Ip's of the Nanos are the same using the Discovery Utility as the appear within my linksys client table.

Nano1 IP is 192.168.2.105
Nano2 IP is 192.168.2.106

I can ping both but cannot login to Nano2.

[Nate]

Since the Netgear is a router and the radio is plugged into the WAN port, that may prevent you from accessing the radio, as I understand it (this combination can act strangly in my (limited) experience).

Perhaps you can plug everthing at the Netgear end into its switch ports and disable its DHCP server. That is what I did with my Linksys 802.11a router AP here at the house so my laptop is on the same network as the other computers and is reachable from them (a little difference scenario but network wise still of the same concept). After all, with the NS5 radios performing as a transparent bridge only one router is needed on the network and that is where your LAN meets your ISP (your Linksys).

I just installed an NS5 link today with a Netgear FS105 switch that the station and remote computer plug into and had no problems with reaching the station NS5 from either end--the remote computer or from the computer where the AP and DSL connection are located.