TL-R605 Router
Hi TP-Link Community!
I hope someone can help me in this case.
Today iam using a DECO M5 Network and iam a little bit frustrated about the availabitly - lack of features in my network.
So i decided to switch to a Omada solution and i would prefer the following network;
1xTL-R605 Router
4xEAP245 AP
1xOC200
1x2210P Switch
So i think this configuration should work fine.
Since 2 weeks now, iam searching and searching and searching but to buy TP-Link products here in Austria is really horrible.
The availabilty of the OC200 is good and also the EAP245 is ok - but i can´t buy a TL-R605 Router. No dealer and distributor has this product in stock and they told me that they cannot say when this product is available. Also the Switch is very hard to get.
Can you please tell me.................
Do i really need the RL-R605VPN or could i start also with another classical router to use Omada SDN?
Is the TL-R605 an old product or is hard to get because of the Covid-19 situation?
Can someone please suggest me a alternative Router or should i start with the router functionality of my LTE Router (todays this router is only bridging)
Thank you very much for your input
regards
Christian
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@Fae that's indeed also a possible scenario to achieve it. In my case the router is attached to the providers modem, which uses the 192.168.0.1 to communicate to the router, but also that isn't a problem in your scenario. Still, other thing i have to look at before effectively switching the routers is how to export / import the DHCP address reservations. The limited number of reservations on the archer where the main reason (after central managenment and stronger secuirty) to switch to the TL-R605. GrM
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Hi@all!
My Omada Network is up an running and after some "hard" minutes it works perfectly. This is my config;
First of all - the most important things for me in the installation;
- Please update all Firmwares to the latest versions before do anything. The OC200 was the first device i updated. After that i updated my SG2210p switch and after that the Firewall.
After the updated the OC200 "see´s" the HW after 2-3 seconds.
- Do not make any changes to the devices and reset them after FW-Upgrade. The RL-R605 Firewall was not ready for adopting after i have changed the LAN Ip or i have logged in and define i passwort - yes, thats crazy.
Any questions?
regards
Chris
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As far as I know the cloud based solution is not avaliable yet.The corrects steps are to adopt it by default from your hardware controller OC200/300 or Software controller-
Regards
I managed to get my TL-R605 working today, after experiencing very similar symptoms as described above, not getting the OC200 to adopt the gateway. Here is what I did:
- I reset the router to factory spec
- Accessed the management interface in stand-alone mode
- When prompted by the R605, set up userid and password. This you will use only during the initial stand-alone mode "testing". Later, when the OC200 adopts it, it will be overwritten.
- Now I could access the management interface, where I could play around with the WAN settings and the LAN settings. In my case, I realised that the reason the OC200 could not adopt it, is because the R605 defaults to 192.168.0.1 and my LAN was sitting on 192.168.1.xxx. Something was getting confused.....
- I configured and got the R605 up in stand-alone mode first, with the WAN interface working properly, and forced all my IP leases to be renewed on 192.168.0.xxx
- Then the OC200 adopted the R605 without problems and it is working fine. Of course the adopt will fail the first time because it tries to access the R605 with admin/admin. When it comes back to you, just provide the userid and password from step 3 above.
- Now I run the OC200 plugged into the WAN/LAN 1 port of the R605, at a later stage I will set up a seperate management VLAN on this port. One step at a time! Downstream I run a TL-SG2210MP switch plugged into the R605 LAN port. I run 3 x EAP225 Outdoor, a EAP225 and a EAP245. Works really well.
Hope this helps!
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Thank you all for sharing your scenarios and other information. Soon I will do another attempt to adopt the router into my SDN. But first I will share my current situation with you.
The new router TL-R605 is operating fine, after configuring it using it's own web-interface. I have a network up and running, including 3 EAP access points, a NAS, printer, several pc's, etc, etc. The LAN network address is 192.168.36.0. The router's LAN IP is 192.168.36.2, my OC200 is running on IP 192.168.36.4. The new router is the only router in my network. OC200 and all EAPs run the latest firmware.
What do you think?
1. Should I be able (with this current configuration) to adopt the router using the OC200 controller (not the cloud controller)?
In fact, I've tried this several times lately, without any success. However, I believe it should work this way: there is no documentation that says I'm doing the wrong thing. Besides, if a network is growing and a second or third router is added to the network, it should be possible to adopt the router in the existing network, right?
2. Or: should I reset the router to factory settings AND reset the OC200 to factory settings, so they both use network IP 192.168.0.0. That would be crazy, wouldn't it?
3. Any other scenario that would make this work.
Kind regards,
Daniel
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