HT204616: Wi-Fi base stations: Setting up and configuring a roaming network (802.11 a/b/g/n)

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Q: Extended Network: Relay has ghosted "Connect Using:"

I have 2 Airport Extreme Base Stations on Firmware 7.6.1 (current as at June 22, 2012). I was using Airport Utility 6.1 for Lion, then downloaded the 5.6 Utility per another post that indicated I could then get parity with the instructions for "Extended Network" setup.

 

I'm following along, but as soon as I tell the relay to extend a wireless network, the option to "Connect Using" is grayed out. It is locked on "Wireless Network" even though I want to select "Ethernet", b/c the relay base station is fed (via its WAN port) from an ethernet connection via a LAN port on the source base station that is creating the wireless network.

 

What am I missing?

 

Is there some default IPv6 setting I need to turn off? Wireless restrictions to remove? I don't get why this isn't working.

 

AirPort Utility 5.6 - starbaseweb-parents relay.png

Posted on Jun 22, 2012 7:17 PM

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