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Help with Vodafone (Huawei) router + Airport Extreme

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  • 23-11-2010 10:23pm
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    TheBardWest
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    Hi all - need a bit of help with my home network. I have a Vodafone (Huawei) gateway - ADSL modem + router + wifi. I found the Wifi to be really unreliable, so I switched that off and bought an Airport Extreme Base Station.

    Here's where it gets tricky. Vodafone is fussy about DNS - so if my machines don't have the DNS manually set, sometimes addresses wont resolve. Problem is, I didn't realize I could get the Airport to broadcast the DNS to its clients because I had it in Bridge mode, which apparently doesn't broadcast DNS...(as far as I can tell). If I switch the airport to serve DHCP, suddenly my DNS fields are auto-populated correctly across all my connected clients...

    So - let me ask you if this setup seems right to you, or if you'd do anything differently to optimize:

    VF Router - 192.168.1.1 root address. Wifi disabled, set to DHCP, with only Airport Extreme connected via Ethernet. (Any benefit if I disable DHCP here?)

    APE - 192.168.1.2 address via DHCP from VF router. Set to serve DHCP address range .100 through .200, as well as the Vodafone DNS. This 'seems' to work OK on two of my devices so far...

    ...but I'm not certain this is the optimal configuration.

    Advice?


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    #2
    akamossie
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    configuration seems right


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    dub45
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    You shouldn't have two dhcps enabled.


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    TheBardWest
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    If not two DHCP - what? I think I can disable DHCP on the VF router, but I'm not sure then how to configure the APX...


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    dub45
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,448 Mod ✭✭✭✭dub45


    If you have two dhcps enabled they will conflict. Try turning off the dhcp in the aiport extreme - y ou will just be using it as a wirleless point then and the vodfafone will do the routing.


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