[TriLUG] Network configuration help?

[Aaron Joyner via TriLUG]

What's your objective for the guest network, Brian?  Do you want it to be
segmented from the internal network?  Have a bandwidth limit?  Have open
access, or a more-frequently rotated password?  Some or all of those?

There are a few solutions I'm tempted to suggest, but without knowing the
goal it's hard to know if they'll meet your needs.

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 10:05 AM Wes Garrison via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Some routers won't accept a private IP on their WAN interface.
>
> See if there's a setting for blocking "bogon" networks or private networks,
> possibly on the firewall tab.
>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 9:37 AM Brian McCullough via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > I seem to have run into the proverbial brick wall, so am coming to "the
> > Oracle" for help.  I know that this may seem trivial to some of you, but
> > I don't do it often enough to have it in "muscle memory."
> >
> >
> > I have a wired network at home, and I want to add a "guest" WiFi subnet
> > to it.
> >
> > I have a ZyXEL router that I have used in the past, and did a factory
> > reset on it.
> >
> > I then plugged its WAN port into the existing network ( by way of a
> > switch ), and started working on configuration.
> >
> > I can see that it has been assigned an IP ( v4 ) address by the main
> > router, and on the ZyXEL it shows the WAN port as up, but there is no
> > address on the status page.
> >
> > When I plug a laptop into one of the ZyXEL's ports, it can get an
> > address, but it can't see the outside world.
> >
> > I tried to make the local LAN the same address range as the global one,
> > as a different 192.168../24 address, and as a 172.16../24 address, but,
> > while all of those work to give the laptop access to the router, nothing
> > goes out.
> >
> > After giving up at that point, I have wondered about assiging a static
> > address to the WAN port on the ZyXEL, but otherwise, I am stuck.
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
> >
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