Network using networks with Arris TG862G52 gateway

Been floating through discussion after discussion and I still did not have a concrete concept of the panoply of choices of establishing a wifi network using an Arris TG862G52 gateway through Time Warner. Currently, living with my daughter and son-in-law in NH where Time Warner provides internet service. Because speed was lethargic, I offered to pay for upgraded internet speed. As a result, Time Warner provided an Arris TG862G52 gateway. There is a new Time Capsule directly connected to one of the Arris ports. The Arris wireless is disabled, so that a wifi network is established through the directly connected Time Capsule. From this point, the wifi network has been extended through numerous devices included a second Time Capsule. an Airport Extreme and an Airport Express. The connected Time Capsule appears to be the hub and the Bridge Mode is off. All other devices serve to extend the network. Therefore, their Bridge Modes are also off.
Not sure if I should enable the wireless through the Arris and reconfigure the network or leave well enough alone. NAT is a new concept to me. I did notice that any of the connected Apple devices give the wireless options of Bridge Mode Off, DHCP only, and DHCP and NAT.
Hey, I do not mind if you refer me to some literature, but I would appreciate a deeper understanding of cause and effects issues pertaining to enabling the Arris wifi or establishing the wifi (as it now is) with the Time Capsule.
Any help would be appreciated! I'm not opposed to reading some long as there's some direction.

Your current setup is correct, according to traditional networking rules.
Ironically, if you call Apple Support, they will recommend that you configure the Time Capsule not in the traditional Bridge Mode setting......used when there is another gateway or router "upstream" on the network...... but as a second router providing DHCP and NAT service. If you do this, you now have a Double NAT error on the network, which Apple says you can "ignore".
You might want to follow up with Apple Support if you need more details on their controversial thinking.
As far as the Arris gateway is concerned, you could turn on the wireless service on the Arris gateway if you really needed another wireless network for guests or something like that.
When you have two devices both producing a network, it is good practice to separate them by 6-8 feet or a few meters to reduce the chances of wireless interference between them. So, if the Arris gateway is located close to the Time Capsule, try to separate the devices 6-8 feet or more.

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But with the new TG862, it doesn't seem to be an option. From what I've read, if I have the TG862 in one room (connected to the cable), AirPort Extreme #1 in the middle of the house, trying to join the existing network (or extend it?), and AirPort Extreme #2 in the far end of the house (to extend from AirPort #1), it won't work. Apple's "extension" technology isn't compatible with all other modems or routers, and even if it was, I'd have to somehow configure the TG862 to "allow to be extended."
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The connected-to-the-cable-desktop is a PC; we have multiple iPhones, iPads, and anywhere from 1 Mac laptop to 1 iMac in the house at any given time.

pcbjr wrote:
Topic title pretty well sums up the question.
I have a TimeCapsule Base Station with two Expresses for extending the network through the house.
We're doing a 3 room addition, and there is not a convenient place to put an Express in a wall outlet in the middle room of the addition, but there's a perfect place to put an Extreme on top of a piece of furniture.
So, can the Extreme act as an "extender" only, in lieu of using an Express?
Hiya.
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IP routing utilizing Verizon private network (GRE tunnel) with remote cellular gateways

Okay, I give up, and think I have done my due diligence (I have been engrossed and fascinated spending many more hours than allotted to try and learn some of the finer details). Time for some advice. My usual trade is controls engineering which generally require only basic knowledge of networking principals. However I recently took a job to integrate 100 or so lift stations scattered around a county into a central SCADA system. I decided to use cellular technology to connect these remote sites back to the main SCADA system. Well the infrastructure is now in and it’s time to get these things talking. Basic topology description is as follows: Each remote site has an Airlink LS300 gateway. Attached to the gateway via Ethernet is a system controller that I will be polling via Modbus TCP from the main SCADA system. The Airlinks are provisioned by Verizon utilizing a private network with static IP's. This private networks address is 192.168.1.0/24. Back at the central office the SCADA computer is sitting behind a Cisco 2911. The LAN address of the central office is 192.168.11.0/24. The 2911 is utilizing GRE tunnels that terminate with Verizon. The original turn up was done with another contractor that did a basic config of the router which you will find below. As it stands now I am pretty confident the tunnels are up and working (if I change a local computers subnet to 255.255.0.0 I can surprisingly reach the airlinks in the field), but this is obviously not the right way to solve the problem, not to mention I was unable to successfully poll the end devices on the other side of the Airlinks. I think I understand just about every part of the config below and think it is just missing a few items to be complete. I would greatly appreciate anyone’s help in getting this set up correctly. I also have a few questions about the set up that still don’t make sense to me, you will find them below the config. Thanks in advance.
no aaa new-model
ip cef
ip dhcp excluded-address 10.10.10.1
ip dhcp pool ccp-pool
import all
network 10.10.10.0 255.255.255.248
default-router 10.10.10.1
lease 0 2
ip domain name yourdomain.com
no ipv6 cef
multilink bundle-name authenticated
username cisco privilege 15 one-time secret
redundancy
crypto isakmp policy 1
encr 3des
hash md5
authentication pre-share
group 2
crypto isakmp key AbCdEf01294 address 99.101.15.99
crypto isakmp key AbCdEf01294 address 99.100.14.88
crypto ipsec transform-set VZW_TSET esp-3des esp-md5-hmac
mode transport
crypto map VZW_VPNTUNNEL 1 ipsec-isakmp
description Verizon Wireless Tunnel
set peer 99.101.15.99
set peer 99.100.14.88
set transform-set VZW_TSET
match address VZW_VPN
interface Tunnel1
description GRE Tunnel to Verizon Wireless
ip address 172.16.200.2 255.255.255.252
tunnel source 22.20.19.18
tunnel destination 99.101.15.99
interface Tunnel2
description GRE Tunnel 2 to Verizon Wireless
ip address 172.16.200.6 255.255.255.252
tunnel source 22.20.19.18
tunnel destination 99.100.14.88
interface Embedded-Service-Engine0/0
no ip address
shutdown
interface GigabitEthernet0/0
description $ETH-LAN$$ETH-SW-LAUNCH$$INTF-INFO-GE 0/0$
ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.248
shutdown
duplex auto
speed auto
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
ip address 192.168.11.1 255.255.255.0
duplex auto
speed auto
interface GigabitEthernet0/2
ip address 22.20.19.18 255.255.255.0
duplex full
speed 100
crypto map VZW_VPNTUNNEL
router bgp 65505
bgp log-neighbor-changes
network 0.0.0.0
network 192.168.11.0
neighbor 172.16.200.1 remote-as 6167
neighbor 172.16.200.5 remote-as 6167
ip forward-protocol nd
ip http server
ip http access-class 23
ip http authentication local
ip http secure-server
ip http timeout-policy idle 60 life 86400 requests 10000
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 22.20.19.19
ip access-list extended VZW_VPN
permit gre host 99.101.15.99 host 22.20.19.18
permit icmp host 99.101.15.99 host 22.20.19.18
permit esp host 99.101.15.99 host 22.20.19.18
permit udp host 99.101.15.99 host 22.20.19.18 eq isakmp
permit gre host 22.20.19.18 host 99.101.15.99
permit gre host 22.20.19.18 host 99.100.14.88
access-list 23 permit 10.10.10.0 0.0.0.7
control-plane
end
So after spending countless hours analyzing every portion of this, I think that adding one line to this will get it going (or at least closer).
ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.0.0 22.20.19.19
That should allow my internal LAN to reach the Airlink gateways on the other side of the tunnel (I think)
Now for a couple of questions for those that are still actually hanging around.
#1 what is the purpose of the Ethernet address assigned to each tunnel? I only see them being used in the BGP section where they are receiving routing tables from the Verizon side (is that correct?). Why wouldn't or couldn't you just use the physical Ethernet address interface in its place (in the BGP section)?
#2 is the config above correct in pointing the default route to the physical Ethernet address? Does that force the packets into the tunnel, or shouldn’t you be pointing it towards the tunnel IP's (172.16.200.2)? If the config above is correct then I should not need to add the route I described above as if I ping out to 192.168.1.X that should catch it and force it into the tunnel where Verizon would pick it up and know how to get it to its destination??
#3 Will I need to add another permit to the VZW_VPN for TCP as in the end I need to be able to poll via Modbus which uses port 502 TCP. Or is TCP implicit in some way with the GRE permit?
I actually have alot more questions, but I will keep reading for now.
I really appreciate the time you all took to trudge through this. Also please feel free to point anything else out that I may have missed or that can be improved. Have a great day!

This post is a duplicate of this thread
https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12275476/proper-routing-lan-through-verizon-private-network-gre-airlink-gateways
which has a response. I suggest that all discussion of this question be done through the other thread.
HTH
Rick

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Use the search as this has been done to death ..
Bob Timmons is the expert on this.. look at his answers here.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4274187?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21856077#21856077
This has been automated in the v6 utility. I am used to doing it manually in v5 utility which is also fairly easy.
Apple doco is also good to read.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4145
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4259
Note.
You cannot extend the guest network unless everything is up to date 7.6.3 firmware. And that is only with the TC as the main router in the network.
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I have an existing modem/router from my ISP that does DHCP and NAT with base IP 192.168.1.1 distributed in the wireless network. I use this wireless network for our private devices. I could turn off the DHCP server in this first router, but there isn't a separate setting to turn off NAT.
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If they can see the HD connected to the AirPort Extreme, will they be able to access it
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or will they still need the password needed to get onto the AirPort Extreme network?
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Does this only happen to me ?
a file: filename.txt, which has a resource-fork when copied to a remote windows share (using ntfs filesystem) will not produce a "._filename.txt". However, the resource fork is preserved.
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Create the file:
echo "1234567890" >test.txt
echo "theresourcefork" >test.txt/rsrc
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cat test.txt/rsrc
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rename the file to "test1.txt"
copy back to your Mac on 10.6
again check if the resource fork is there:
cat test1.txt/rsrc
result: theresourcefork
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copy test1.txt from the network share to your computer.
check if the resource fork is there:
cat test1.txt/rsrc
result: (empty)
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The best case is that you cannot open your documents any more on 10.5 or 10.6. All other cases are worse.
Apple should have built in a fallback compatibility or, should have printed a sticker on the CD.
WARNING: Do not use together with earlier versions of the OS in a Windows network !
I have this rather strange behaviour on 2 Machines, but have not checked if other installations have the same problem. But, I did not find anyhting here when I search for "resource AND fork".
Can anyone else try this out if the behaviour is really that destructive ?

Followup:
indeed, 10.6 uses ntfs streams when availible to store metadata.
for a workaround:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/m an5/nsmb.conf.5.html
create
/etc/nsmb.conf
contents:
\[default\]
streams=no
close all server connections, reconnect.
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Dear all - this is a bit a of concept question. But it seems an obvious and generic requirement - but I can't find a nice, neat and simple solution? Or maybe I can't see the forest for the trees? Help/pointers would be appreciated - the first bit is the connectivity, I'll worry about the security issues once this has been put to bed.
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A (rather poor) ascii picture of what I need:
' | Internet |
192.168.1.100/24 <---->ISP CPE/28 <-------> | |
192.168.2.100/24 <---->ISP CPE/28 <-------> | |
Etc up 'till 192.168.30.100/24 | |
|_________________|
The Internet becomes no more than a 30 port switch - with any 192.168.x.y being able to ping any other 192.168.x.y node
Any takers?

Hello,
Just to make sure I have it correctly, you have several sites each with their own public addresses, which then have a private address range network behind them, and they need to all be able to communicate?
If so the solution would be site-to-site VPN tunnels. That way each client could communicate with every other client using the private addresses, and all of the traffic going out over the ISPs public network would be encrypted. This would involve a lot of tunnels so you would need a pretty beefy router, but that should give you what you are looking for.
Hope I understood it correctly and this helps,
Christopher Ebert - Advanced Network Support Engineer
Cisco Small Business Support Center
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