Airport Extreme DHCP Relay

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Airport Extreme DHCP Relay

I replaced my Airport Extreme with a new router because the Extreme kept dropping the PPPoE connection.

Now I'd like to replace an Airport Express with the Extreme so I can use the 5GHz WiFiconnection.

Trouble is, I can't get the Extreme to relay DHCP.

I set it up exactly the same as my two Airport Expresses, but the Extreme will not relay DHCP to wired clients the way the Expresses do.

The setup for all three (two Expresses and one Extreme) is as follows:

Airport->Wireless: Join a wireless network

Internet->Internet Connection->Connect Using: Wireless Network/Connection Sharing: Off (Bridge Mode)

What have I done wrong?

Posted on Apr 19, 2014 8:25 PM

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LaPastenague

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Apr 19, 2014 8:33 PM in response to Buadhai

Apple routers you do not join wireless.. you extend wireless. The two are different.

In join wireless the Express is wireless to ethernet bridge.

In join wireless the Extreme is a dumb client.. it will neither work as AP nor as ethernet.

But in extend wireless you can do both wireless repeater and ethernet connection.

It has to be apple to apple routers though, otherwise it won't work.

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Buadhai Author

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Apr 19, 2014 8:37 PM in response to LaPastenague

In other words, there's really no use now to which I can put the Airport Extreme.

My house is very small and I already have a strong wireless signal in all the rooms.

Any ideas?

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Apr 19, 2014 8:41 PM in response to Buadhai

In other words, there's really no use now to which I can put the Airport Extreme.

My house is very small and I already have a strong wireless signal in all the rooms.

Any ideas?

You can use the extreme by plugging it by ethernet into the main router.. set it in bridge mode .. that is router bridge not wireless bridge just so that is clear.. you can then use the Extreme for your 5ghz signal.

Otherwise it really doesn't have a lot of use in your kind of network.

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Buadhai Author

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Apr 20, 2014 1:49 AM in response to LaPastenague

My new router already does a good 5GHz signal. What I was hoping for was a 5GHz bridged client.

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Apr 20, 2014 4:09 AM in response to Buadhai

Apple don't do bridge.. that is wireless bridge to non-apple routers.. it is kind of a thing they have.

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Buadhai Author

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May 3, 2014 1:36 AM in response to LaPastenague

Weird, because the Airport Expresses do it very nicely. Right now I'm using an Express and a separate five port Ethernet Switch. I thought it would be nice to use the superfluous Extreme instead.

Oh, well.

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