No Guest Network Option in AP Utility for my TC

Hi -
I have a TC connected via Ethernet to a Linksys Router. I wanted to eliminate the Linksys but need it to work with my Static IP, the TC could not be configured to do so. Thus I am using the TC as a wireless point and to back-up to using Time Machine.
While I am able to set up a normal secure Wireless Network, I now find that I do not have an option to set up a Guest Wireless Network which I really would like to have set up with an easy password for visitors so I do not need to provide the secure level password allowing them access to the main network. When first trying to use the TC I had the Guest Network option and set one up. But since I connected to the Linksys router, I no longer have the option.
Any suggestions as to why I no longer have the Guest Network option and if it is possible and how to create the Guest Wireless Network?
Thank you,
Marcantonio

Marcantonio724 wrote:
Thanks for your reply. My TC is a Simultaneous Dual Band II which I had set up with the Guest Network initially but that got dropped when connecting to the Linksys as I needed to configure the TC in Bridge mode. Guest Network requires the Shared IP configuration and will not work in Bridge mode, as I have learned today.
Yes, that's an unavoidable fact.
I am open to suggestions regarding TC and Static IP. Admittedly, the way I have my Linksys router configured was suggested to me, so I went with it, and it works as needed. But it may not be the ideal configuration which may be influencing the problem. I am using the DMZ Host to remotely access a database server. After doing some reading today, I am realizing that this may not be the securest route.
The catch is that I spent over 1 hour with Apple Care expert level advisers who could not get the TC ports open so I could access the server remotely. Thus I went the route of putting the Linksys back and connecting the TC as the wireless point. But I am unhappy that I have to give up the Guest Network.
I'm unclear as to why you need DMZ functionality and open ports to allow you to connect to a remote server. Normally those types of things are only needed to allow a local server to be reached from outside a LAN.

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