Ok, so I'm completely stumped on this one and hoping someone can point me in the right direction!
The story so far..... I have to try and connect 2 DVR(security cameras) to the internet so the shop owner can spy on his employees and make sure they don't slack off! All the camera work is done, and i've set these up before, so no dramas there. For this shop however, where the DVR's had to be placed is no where near the networking stuff and running a ethernet cable would have been impossible/freaking expensive, so I've gone with a wireless bridge to save about billion hours of cabling work.
The VPN/Firewall system is a Sonicwall TZ150, the first Wifi Bridge is a TP-Link WA850RE and the second one is an Edimax something or other...
The problem is that I can't get any internet access from the DVR side of the bridge. I can ping everything (firewall, computers, printers) if i set static ip's but no internet, no DHCP. When i connect a laptop to the TZ150, BAM! DHCP, internet no issues at ALL!
At first i though maybe the bridge was just refusing the Broadcast packets but I can ping everything, and the arp table shows it can connect through the bridge to computers/router but not through the router to the internet!!!
The Static IP settings(network address, gateway, DNS) are the same as what's configured on the POS terminals.
All other DHCP settings are turned off, so only the TZ150 should be broadcasting anything.
Also just to make it fun, I can't directly set the WAP to use the wifi on the modem as the "lovely" person who set it up, set it to bridge mode and the VPN/Firewall handles the PPPoE settings. Not something I want to mess with.
included is a very poorly drawn diagram to help visualize what I have set up.
Has anyone run into a problem such as this, or at least have an idea of what could be going wrong?
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The story so far..... I have to try and connect 2 DVR(security cameras) to the internet so the shop owner can spy on his employees and make sure they don't slack off! All the camera work is done, and i've set these up before, so no dramas there. For this shop however, where the DVR's had to be placed is no where near the networking stuff and running a ethernet cable would have been impossible/freaking expensive, so I've gone with a wireless bridge to save about billion hours of cabling work.
The VPN/Firewall system is a Sonicwall TZ150, the first Wifi Bridge is a TP-Link WA850RE and the second one is an Edimax something or other...
The problem is that I can't get any internet access from the DVR side of the bridge. I can ping everything (firewall, computers, printers) if i set static ip's but no internet, no DHCP. When i connect a laptop to the TZ150, BAM! DHCP, internet no issues at ALL!
At first i though maybe the bridge was just refusing the Broadcast packets but I can ping everything, and the arp table shows it can connect through the bridge to computers/router but not through the router to the internet!!!
The Static IP settings(network address, gateway, DNS) are the same as what's configured on the POS terminals.
All other DHCP settings are turned off, so only the TZ150 should be broadcasting anything.
Also just to make it fun, I can't directly set the WAP to use the wifi on the modem as the "lovely" person who set it up, set it to bridge mode and the VPN/Firewall handles the PPPoE settings. Not something I want to mess with.
included is a very poorly drawn diagram to help visualize what I have set up.
Has anyone run into a problem such as this, or at least have an idea of what could be going wrong?
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