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I love my NAS-323, as it has been working flawlessly for 3 months now. I needed more than 4 ports which my managed Dlink router had. On my Router, I had the NAS-323 set up as always coming up as 192.168.2.5 (not use DHCP).
As of last night, I moved the whole network to a TEG-S80G unmanaged 8-port switch. None of the computers on the network see the NAS. This is not surprising since they are looking for 192.168.2.5, and who knows what the TEG-S80G expects the NAS ip address to be. The problem is that I don't this the TEG-S80G has a configuration web page. So I don't know how to access the NAS configuration, or what to do.
In short, I now have an unmanaged network that does everything I want, except see my NAS. Is there something obvious I am missing? According to the TEG-S80G, it should just reboot and see my NAS. It deos not.
Any help would be appreciated, and give me hours of sleep.
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Make sure you have a link light and activity. That switch adjust power depending on the cable length. So maybe you could try some different cable lengths.
Alternatively you could plug the NAS back into one of the newly freed router ports.
Last edited by freitas (2009-06-26 05:48:49)
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managed or unmanaged doesn't mather. If you setup a static ip adress on the nas it should still be reachable. Please do check what ip adress of your computer is. Do you have the router connected to the switch?
Because you problebly need the DHCP server of the router for your pc.
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I was trying not to use the router at all. Seems what you are saying is that without the router's DHCP, I can't use the NAS. Which means the switch alone won't see it.
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if the nas is set to get its ip address via dhcp and there is no dhcp server running from which to get its ip address then it won't have one (unless there is a fallback address)...... The way to correct this would be to go back to your old setup and in the web gui give the nas an ip address, go back to the new setup (without router) and it should be fine (assuming the networks are in the same range/subnet). should all be fine then. remember to set the link speed to auto as well, and you may need to set the gateway ip on the nas too.
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If you're not going to use a router or some other DHCP server, you'll need to configure appropriate static ip address on every host in the network, and the DNS-323 will work just fine without DHCP - provided you configure it correctly.
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Odds on you will still need the services of a router (DHCP, routing etc.). The switch is just going to expand your network LAN without any services..... Plug one port of the switch into a LAN port on the router.
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kymlp wrote:
Odds on you will still need the services of a router (DHCP, routing etc.). The switch is just going to expand your network LAN without any services..... Plug one port of the switch into a LAN port on the router.
Not all networks need DHCP and/or routing - I've installed many a network with neither.
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