This one is weird.
I have the ZyXEL c2100z Wireless Router from CenturyLink, which seems to crap out ever 3 months. In an effort to avoid "overworking" this piece of equipment I have tried a few ways to bypass the unit. The lastest is using WAC104 WAPs from Netgear.
I have Cat5e/6 drops to the main utility closet where the ZyXEL c2100z is located. The WAPs are configured properly. I can connect to the WAP, and traverse the entire LAN. The WAP supports both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz. If I connect to the 5Ghz I can see the entire LAN, but I can't get out of the network. Without changing anything, but switching to the 2.4Ghz network, I am then able to get to the full internet.
The wireless on the C2100Z is completely disabled. I am using the DHCP server of the modem. DNS for the modem is configured to Google's servers (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4). Routing seems just fine on the modem:
Kernel IP routing tableDestination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Ifacedefault 97.117.21.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth5.21.1.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 br097.117.21.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth5.2192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 br0
Strangest to me is that the WAPs are both hard wired to the modem, so as far as I know there is no way for the modem to determine which wireless network the traffic is from, unless they are tagging traffic oddly, who knows.
Any ideas?
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