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Exclamation point on airport icon when connecting to wired base access point

I've got a WNDR4500 router connected by LAN to my main Netgear router and acting as a wired base access point (to extend my wifi network). Its network is seen by MacBook laptops but when I try to connect, I get an exclamation point over the airport wifi signal icon in the menubar. Have I got a setting wrong? I currently have it set not to act as a DHCP server; I think maybe that's what the MacBook hates. What is the correct way to set this up so that Apple devices can connect to it?

MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Dec 19, 2016 7:03 AM

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Dec 21, 2016 2:37 PM in response to Michael Levin

Simple .. set the WNDR4500 WAN address statically.. in the router itself.

Then give the DHCP reservation in the main router the same address.

That keeps everything happy usually.

Exclamation point on airport icon when connecting to wired base access point

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