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Forward all ports from D-Link Router to Airport Extreme

AndrewMRiv

AndrewMRiv

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A company that installed solar panels at my house installed a D-Link router (DIR-600L) in front of my modem stating that "their hardware does not work well with Apple products" and then plugged my Airport Extreme into it.

(So ip addresses are in a "192.168.0.x" format rather than "10.0.1.x" format on my network.)

I put my Airport Extreme into bridge mode but now I'm here manually opening up ports scrambling to fix Apple services (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202944).

I would rather use the Airport Extreme to manage everything while also letting the Solar Panel company use their monitoring hardware.

Is there any way to fix this?
 
Taz Mangus

Taz Mangus

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AndrewMRiv said:
A company that installed solar panels at my house installed a D-Link router (DIR-600L) in front of my modem stating that "their hardware does not work well with Apple products" and then plugged my Airport Extreme into it.

(So ip addresses are in a "192.168.0.x" format rather than "10.0.1.x" format on my network.)

I put my Airport Extreme into bridge mode but now I'm here manually opening up ports scrambling to fix Apple services (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202944).

I would rather use the Airport Extreme to manage everything while also letting the Solar Panel company use their monitoring hardware.

Is there any way to fix this?
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Switch the AirPort Extreme from bridge mode to generating an IP address. When you do this you will create a double NAT. Simply tell the Airport basestation to ignore the double NAT. Now you can have the AirPort Extreme basestation generate 10.xxx.xxx.xxx IP addresses. I had to do this very same thing when I had AT&T Uverse installed. AT&T forces me to use their router on the front end which connects to WAN on my AirPort Extreme basestation. I have had no issues when letting the double NAT happen which has been about a year now.

EDIT: This is probably the reason why you are having the issue you posted in this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1884457/
 
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AndrewMRiv

AndrewMRiv

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Original poster
Oct 29, 2013
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Taz Mangus said:
Switch the AirPort Extreme from bridge mode to generating an IP address. When you do this you will create a double NAT. Simply tell the Airport basestation to ignore the double NAT. Now you can have the AirPort Extreme basestation generate 10.xxx.xxx.xxx IP addresses. I had to do this very same thing when I had AT&T Uverse installed. AT&T forces me to use their router on the front end which connects to WAN on my AirPort Extreme basestation. I have had no issues when letting the double NAT happen which has been about a year now.

EDIT: This is probably the reason why you are having the issue you posted in this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1884457/
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Thank you. I am going to test that. On the D-Link Router, I will even put the Airport Base Station on DMZ temporarily at one point to see if it helps.
 
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