Hello,

I have a setup where I have three WNHDE111 in my house. One acts as an access point while the other two act as bridges. The problem is that the firewall will recognize all of the ip addresses of the network objects under the bridge and also including the bridge but all of them show the same mac address disallowing you to add more than one with that mac address. I am not really sure I should just add the bridges and not add the objects. Also could someone please explain what benefit it is to add these bridges as a network rather than as a single computer?

Really? No one knows?

I don't know why the clients under the bridge would have the same MAC as the bridge unless maybe you have some perverse form of MAC cloning turned on???

I use 4 Belkin routers in "Access Point" mode under one of my Z100G units with no issues. I have not added any network objects. I'm just running the default config. Maybe I'm being dumb, but I did not see any advantage of creating network objects as there did not seem to be a need.

Yea it is crazy. I have one Netgear WNHDE111 as an access point mode and two acting as bridges. Funny thing is that My notebook connects to the access point and doesnt have this issue. It is only the objects on the other side of the bridge that somehow are seen as the bridge's mac but their own individual ip addresses. Basically for my desktop upstairs as an example this is the setup. Cable Modem - Z100G - Netgear WNHDE111 (access point) - Netgear WNHDE111(bridge mode) - gigabit switch - desktop pc. In this example the desktop will appear as a network object with its own ip but with the birdge mac address.

That just makes my head hurt ;-/

Have you got (or can you borrow) another unit of different make/model to substitute for the bridge?

one of the $20 5-port linksys boxes or something???

I gotta think its the box acting as the bridge that is being stupid ;-)