DNS problem
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DNS problem
Region : Argentina
Model : TL-WA901ND
Hardware Version : V3
Firmware Version :
ISP :
Please help. I have a fixed wire network with a router/switch to which I do not have access to any features. The cisco device provides the gateway. It does not have any dhcp functions enabled. It has no wireless features. It provides access for the work based computers in afixed ip range to the internet, and firewalls incoming connections.
The computers on the fixed wire networks have addresses starting 162.19.74... as a start and are static ip addresses, with fixed ip addresses and dns servers in the windows network cards tcp ip settings.
The gateway is 162.19.74.161.
The point of the AP for me was to be able to bring wireless devices into my work environment.
I wireless devices needed to hav the same ip addresses as the fixed wire network starting 162.19.74.180 -186 range. These are different to the static ips on the wired network.
The gateway is set to 162.19.74.161 just like the fixed wire network.
This is set in the Network Lan settings.
The ip address of the access point (AP) is set to 162.19.74.168 which has no conflicts and is visible from the fixed ethernet pcs attached to the network.
The wireless devices get given an ip appropriately in the range specified but cannot resolve dns addresses.
When going into the dhcp server settings, apart from the range, the gateway is set also to the 162.19.74.161.
I have tried various dns settings including 0.0.0.0 which was the default, 8.8.4.4 and 8.8.8.8 (google dns servers).
This does not help.
From the tp-link access point's web page and diagnostics, 8.8.8.8 can be pinged but if a website name is entered it does not reach the site.
When I rang and spent 20mins on the phone, I was told not to enable the dhcp server. However, I want to do this so I can use my wireless devices from home and work with different settings. There is no other dhcp server, and the addresses are deliberately the same as the fixed wire network and the router/gateway will send things to the internet when outside the 255.255.255.0 subnet mask. Why does this not work ? How do I get the dns to work ?
Model : TL-WA901ND
Hardware Version : V3
Firmware Version :
ISP :
Please help. I have a fixed wire network with a router/switch to which I do not have access to any features. The cisco device provides the gateway. It does not have any dhcp functions enabled. It has no wireless features. It provides access for the work based computers in afixed ip range to the internet, and firewalls incoming connections.
The computers on the fixed wire networks have addresses starting 162.19.74... as a start and are static ip addresses, with fixed ip addresses and dns servers in the windows network cards tcp ip settings.
The gateway is 162.19.74.161.
The point of the AP for me was to be able to bring wireless devices into my work environment.
I wireless devices needed to hav the same ip addresses as the fixed wire network starting 162.19.74.180 -186 range. These are different to the static ips on the wired network.
The gateway is set to 162.19.74.161 just like the fixed wire network.
This is set in the Network Lan settings.
The ip address of the access point (AP) is set to 162.19.74.168 which has no conflicts and is visible from the fixed ethernet pcs attached to the network.
The wireless devices get given an ip appropriately in the range specified but cannot resolve dns addresses.
When going into the dhcp server settings, apart from the range, the gateway is set also to the 162.19.74.161.
I have tried various dns settings including 0.0.0.0 which was the default, 8.8.4.4 and 8.8.8.8 (google dns servers).
This does not help.
From the tp-link access point's web page and diagnostics, 8.8.8.8 can be pinged but if a website name is entered it does not reach the site.
When I rang and spent 20mins on the phone, I was told not to enable the dhcp server. However, I want to do this so I can use my wireless devices from home and work with different settings. There is no other dhcp server, and the addresses are deliberately the same as the fixed wire network and the router/gateway will send things to the internet when outside the 255.255.255.0 subnet mask. Why does this not work ? How do I get the dns to work ?
