Unable to activate ethernet port to bridge airport network to wired clients

Hi,
I have two AE setup in a WDS arrangement. The WDS is working fine. My problem is that I want to connect wired clients to the remote station; but everytime I select "Enable ethernet port" and restart the AE, the option is unchecked and the ethernet port is disabled.
Can you help?
Many thanks,
David.

... everytime I
select "Enable ethernet port" and restart the AE, the
option is unchecked and the ethernet port is
disabled.
I saw similar behavior in my setup. I seem to have gotten it working now.
Finally, I actually attached an ethernet cable and wired client to the AE Ethernet port (instead of just trying to configure it without an actual client connected, which I tried several times). After that, when I checked the box for Enable and restarted the AE, it worked.
Did you get yours working?

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