Configuring Huawei HG630b with Apple Airport

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MrOriginal1

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#171389 16-Apr-2015 00:17

I just got fibre installed and have setup the Spark provided Huawei HG630b with default settings (except wireless is disabled) and connected its LAN1 port to the WAN port on my Apple Airport. The Airport is in bridged mode and is providing the wireless. However, I am getting an error message on my Mac each time I wake my Mac: "Another device on the network is using your computer's IP address". I can resolve this by reseting the Huawei or waiting and attempting to reconnect several times. I'm thinking that this error is due to the way the DHCP server on the Huawei is assigning IP addresses. Are there any settings I need to change to setup my network with the Airport acting as the wireless access point?

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#1285260 16-Apr-2015 06:17

I have a similar setup but have not had that problem, fibre router and Airport Extreme in bridge mode.

Ensure you only have one device acting as DHCP server.

It sounds like you have a client that is not abiding by the DHCP lease time. You may be able to identify that device by matching MAC and IP addresses reported by your DHCP server.

MrOriginal1

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#1288787 21-Apr-2015 20:41

The issue seems to have gone away on its own. I tried renewing the DHCP lease on every device, but I'm not sure if that made a difference in the end.

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#1288790 21-Apr-2015 20:46

One day Apple might realise it's 2015 not 1995 and include basic functionality in their hardware such as VLAN tagging.

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#1288795 21-Apr-2015 21:00

I've not had that issue in the week or more I hooked an AEBS to the 630b. Bridge mode on the Airport is DHCP and NAT off, so only he Huawei is serving DHCP. I'd suggest the the initial hookup confused the IP's from the pre hookup, and that's resolved itself naturally

MrOriginal1

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#1304828 13-May-2015 21:20

The issue has come back unfortunately and today has been happening every hour or so. I've tried restarting the Huawei with no resolution. Any ideas what could be causing this?

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#1304836 13-May-2015 21:51

MrOriginal1: The issue has come back unfortunately and today has been happening every hour or so. I've tried restarting the Huawei with no resolution. Any ideas what could be causing this?

Have you found out what device it is based on MAC address ?

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MrOriginal1

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#1304838 13-May-2015 21:53

I think it is the Airport itself.

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#1304842 13-May-2015 22:09

As above, this happened to me twice after adding the extreme the internal IP address was well above the devices I will check my extreme when home. It hasn't happened since , perhaps lease issue after the change in router/bridge setup?

All my devices are low IP numbers, but I am sure the offending one was a 169 type of suffix. I'll need to see if it happens again but it happened twice in a short time, day or so, of the change to the AEBS with the 630b, then on the 659 and the AEBS, nothing since, I assume a new setup change/confusion by the router/AEBS

MrOriginal1

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#1304843 13-May-2015 22:12

Thanks. I've tried renewing the DHCP lease for the Airport before and it hasn't fixed the issue long term.

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#1306306 16-May-2015 14:40

I've set a static IP address on the Airport outside the range of DHCP IP addresses assigned by the Huawei. I haven't had the problem again so far, so hopefully that has fixed the issue.