Hi there,
A customer of mine is moving into a serviced office that gives it's clients access to a shared wireless network.
The wireless network is on a range of 10.0.0.0 with a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0. The wireless network is connected via a couple of access points to a zyxel router/modem which dishes out ip addresses with the above range.
The serviced office gives its clients wifi boxes that are in bridged mode (i.e. wifi in and wired out) these are preconfigured.
Now here is the problem:
If I connect the bridge box to the wired port of a normal XP box then I get an IP using DHCP of 10.0.0.* and the internet works fine without problems.
If we connect several computers via a switch to the same (single) wifi bridge box, then each of the computers gets a DHCP in the range of 10.0.0.*
Following me so far? :-)
Finally, we don't want our customer to be in the same range as all the other companies in the serviced office space so we are trying to install a Watchguard Firebox X10E into their office so that they can be on a range of 192.168.0.0/24 and they are then protected from intrusion, be it from within the office space or outside.
If we connect the box to the external port of the wifi bridge we don't seem to be receiving an address from the Zyxel router. If we set an IP in the static range then we cannot get an internet connection or ping out either.
The firebox firewall has not been changed from the out-of-the-box configuration.
Does anyone have ANY ideas as to why the Zyxel and the firebox don't seem to be able to talk, even though when plugged into a computer, the Zyxel dishes out an address without any issues?
Any calls for more information will gladly be answered.
Thanks in Advance
Richard
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