Unleashed at home, cannot get it to work

[david_henderson]

I just purchased an unleashed R600 for my home and cannot seem to get it to work. My current AP is an older Apple Airport Extreme that had this physical hookup

Cable Modem<---->Airport Extreme<---->Netgear switch

The Airport Extreme acted as the DHCP server on my home network. I currently have the Ruckus plugged into my Netgear switch and the cable modem plugged into my Netgear switch. When I work my way through the Ruckus wizard I choose static IP for the R600 since I want it to now be my DHCP server for the network. Once configured and I join my newly created network, I get an IP address on my MacBook Pro from the Ruckus but no internet connectivity.

I have been working on this for several hours with a few resets on the R600 in between with no luck. Any idea what the problem is?

I have even tried the R600 inline with a connection similar to my Airport Extreme. I used both ethernet ports on my R600 like this:
Cable Modem<---->R600<---->Netgear switch

What is interesting is if I leave my Airport Extreme connected an active and just hang the R600 off my Netgear switch, all works fine. In other words, if I use the R600 for connectivity and the Airport Extreme for DHCP I can get internet access. I want to use the R600 for DHCP though

[monnat_systems]

sorry for the dumb questions...

Did you configure DNS on the Ruckus AP while setting it up? Looks to me an DNS issue...
If you statically configure DNS on any Laptop or wireless device. does it work?
What happens when you are wired either to switch or AP?s

[david_henderson]

I tried two different dns servers. I put in the gateway ip address as the dns server and I tried 8.8.8.8 which is Google's dns server

I am going to try the setup again today

Should the R600 be inline betwwen my cable modem and my netgear switch?

Netgear switch------R600------cable modem

[john_d]

I'm unaware of Unleashed AP's working as a NAT gateway device currently... I've tried to do a similar project and ended up needing to use Standalone for that purpose. I think you're better off letting your AirPort Extreme manage the routing and DHCP services and letting your R600 just be a wireless AP

[david_henderson]

That is disappointing that the R600 can act as a DHCP server but not as a NAT gateway. Any idea if this is in the works for a future firmware update? I know that it is unusual to have an unleashed product in a home but I would assume even SMBs would want this to act as a NAT device.

Can I change the R600 unleashed product into a standalone AP? If so, would I lose a lot of capabilities over running the unleashed firmware? As a standalone can it act as a NAT device?