Bridge mode not giving out IP address?
Put my Panoramic Wifi Gateway into bridge mode and conencted it to my ASUS router but its not handing out an IP address. I tried to chat with Ccox support online and they seemed clueless. Called into...
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What's not assigning IP addresses...the Panoramic in Bridge Mode or your ASUS? I don't know if cloning was necessary...but it works.
Cox assigns a public IP address (static or temporary) to your modem because your modem is on their network. Your modem, in turn, passes traffic from the Cox network (modem) onto your private network (personal device). Your modem is just a switch or "gateway" between your private network and the Cox network.
When you put a router in Bridge Mode, the router no longer routes but forwards. Meaning, in Bridge Mode, it doesn't assign, translate, encapsulate or specially handling anything but just forwards traffic. In Bridge Mode, there is no IP routing but just MAC-layer forwarding. If you have DHCP still enabled on the Panoramic while in Bridge Mode, you're adding the routing layer and could have screwed something up. You could have DHCP enabled with multiple routers but I'm not sure about one router or cascading routers.
isn't bridge mode eliminating wi-fi on the panoramic unit?
Bridge Mode disables the wireless private network of the Panoramic but, as Mouth noted, not the wireless public Hot Spot (authentication required) of the Panoramic.
Unless you disable it, the antenna of the Panoramic can be a public beacon as a Cox Hot Spot. It's two different burbs in the Panoramic.
