Hello, I have been researching this for a few weeks now and have read a few threads about it.
http://forums.att.com/t5/Features-and-How-To/How-to-put-the-Motorola-NVG589-in-bridge-mode-or-as-close-as-you/td-p/3552057#.Uwn7BX-9KSN
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28642159-NVG589-Netgear-Router-for-DLNA
I think I have just enough info to get started. I do want to make sure that I have my ducks in a row.
I know that I want to use the NVG in IP passthrough mode. The router will handle the wifi in my house.
The modem will do all the heavy lifting, I have a Netgear Gigabit switch attached to it for added ports. I will not, as I see it now, need the router to do anything other than broadcast a strong signal.
I was lucky, rehabbing a house to hardwire 13 cat6 drops throughout. I have a patch panel set up in the basement. As I said before, the modem will still do all the heavy lifting, such as Uverse TV and my home server running FreeNAS, all of these will be hardwired via direct connection or patched in.
So, I want the router to handle DHCP allocation for my wireless network, but I want to make sure that anything connected to the wifi will have access to the modem attached network (i.e. the server attached to the modem and network printers and such).
How does this affect my subnets when I allocate my IP addresses? Don't the modem and the router need to be on the same subnet to communicate?
Thanks so much for this! Very excited to get this going! Cheers!
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