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Receive "The IP address conflicts with the WAN IP subnet" when making LAN changes on Netgear device

Hello,

I have the following devices (both Netgear):

Prosafe FVS336Gv3
Router R6300v2

The static IP setting for the LAN on the Prosafe is 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0
The static IP setting for the WAN on the router is 192.168.1.101/255.255.255.0
The static IP setting for the LAN on the router is 10.9.8.1/255.255.255.0

On the router LAN settings, if I try to disable the DHCP Server I receive the error:

The IP address conflicts with the WAN IP subnet.  Please enter a different IP address.

Along with this, Internet connectivity is extremely slow.

Any ideas?

Please advise.

Have a great day,

Don
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The static IP setting for the LAN on the Prosafe is 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0
The static IP setting for the WAN on the router is 192.168.1.101/255.255.255.0
Both networks are in the same subnet - 192.168.1.0/24.
WAN should be in the different subnet than LAN (since you have static IP, I guess that was assign by your ISP).
Set LAN subnet to anything but 192.168.1.0/24 (example 192.168.2.0/24, 192.168.0.0/24 etc).
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Please note, the LAN port you are speaking of is on the Prosafe while the WAN port is on the Router and the two ports are connected.  My topology is:

ISP Modems (bridge mode) > Prosafe (rollover device between the two ISPs) >  Router > Switch

Thank you,

Don
Can you draw topology and mark IP addresses on interfaces to avoid confusion?
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ISP Modems (bridge mode) > 
Public IPs ProSAFE 192.168.1.1/24 > 
192.168.1.101/24 Router 10.9.8.1/24 > 
10.9.8.x/24 Network Devices

I hope this helps.

Thanks for your help.

Don
I thought more like this, but change (mask) your public IP addresses on WAN.
:)
In my mind public IP (WAN) and LAN IP on Prosafe FVS336Gv3 should be different IP addresses, just like on R6300v2.
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Your diagram works fine for me.  Just use the IP addresses you have marked.  Like your diagram, I have 4 different subnets: one for each ISP, one between the ProSAFE and the Router then one more for the LAN.

Have a great day,

Don
Than you should not have problems.
Some piece of slow internet performance could be caused by double natting. Once on every router, but I guess in most situations you should not notice that at all.

And also triple check LAN IP address on your R6300v2 router, since I don't see reason for message that you have mentioned if you have just turned off DHCP on second router and LAN is not in default DHCP range (192.168.1.0/24), so I guess router is still in default IP address range. Maybe router don't accept your 10.x.x.x/24 range and return default IP address for LAN (try 192.168.200.0/24 :) ), or something like that....
I'm not sure what you mean by 4 subnets as I only see, at most 2 or 3:
ISP Modems (bridge mode) > 
 Public IPs ProSAFE 192.168.1.1/24 > 
 192.168.1.101/24 Router 10.9.8.1/24 > 
 10.9.8.x/24 Network Devices
Here 192.168.1.1/24 is a Private IP Address with subnet 192.168.1.0/24
192.168.1.101/24 is another Private IP Address with the same subnet 192.168.1.0/24.

So, the point is that no device should have the same subnet on the WAN and LAN sides.
In order to avoid this, I try to assign a LAN subnet that's not likely to be used as a generic subnet.  Common ones are:
192.168.0.0/24
192.168.1.0/24
10.0.0.0/24
etc.

So, set the LANs that you can set to subnets like:
192.168.123.0/24
192.168.199.0/24
10.0.97.0/24
The chance that picking one like this will avoid the conflict now and into the future.

I do notice that some providers are doing the same thing for likely the same reason.  So, you may find your ISP device's LAN subnet being 192.168.99.0/24 .. something like that.  Still, if you avoid the common ones the likelihood of a matching conflict is low.  And, of course, you'll figure it out.

The big deal is if the ISP changes their device and introduces a new but common subnet on the LAN sie.  You want your own router's LAN to *not* match this to save the hassle to the user of having to reconfigure.
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