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docs:guide-user:network:switch_router_gateway_and_nat [2020/03/31 22:33] – Split table into "Client APs" and Router / Gateway Usage Variants to make things a bit clearer. leeand00docs:guide-user:network:switch_router_gateway_and_nat [2020/12/07 07:05] – [Switch vs Router vs Gateway] update links vgaetera
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 Network devices can operate in 3 different modes: Network devices can operate in 3 different modes:
  
-**[[docs:guide-user:network:openwrt_as_clientdevice|OpenWrt as Client Device - Connecting the device to an existing network]]**\\+**[[docs:guide-user:network:openwrt_as_clientdevice|OpenWrt as client device]]**\\
 If you want to connect your device to an existing network to provide additional functions (for example, you just want to use the Wi-Fi network it provides, the additional ethernet ports, or the device is a NAS serving files over the network, or a mini-server offering some other service). If you want to connect your device to an existing network to provide additional functions (for example, you just want to use the Wi-Fi network it provides, the additional ethernet ports, or the device is a NAS serving files over the network, or a mini-server offering some other service).
  
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 ===== Device as router as "exposed host" in the ISP router ===== ===== Device as router as "exposed host" in the ISP router =====
-Only some ISP routers have this feature, sometimes called a //DMZ// (demilitarized zone), //DMZ for single server//, //exposed host//, or //poor man's bridge mode// (there is no standardized name). This feature enables your ISP router to define a single one of its downstream clients to be a so called "exposed host". The ISP router will then forward all incoming Internet traffic from its upstream side to this "exposed host".+Only some ISP routers have this feature, sometimes called a //DMZ// (demilitarized zone), //DMZ for single server//, //exposed host//, //IP passthrough//, or //poor man's bridge mode// (there is no standardized name). This feature enables your ISP router to define a single one of its downstream clients to be a so called "exposed host". The ISP router will then forward all incoming Internet traffic from its upstream side to this "exposed host".
  
 This effectively disables NAT on the ISP router only for a single connected device on the ISP router downstream side: for obvious reasons, we will be connecting our OpenWrt router as this exposed host. So in the end, we have achieved single NAT solely in the network chain towards the OpenWrt router. This effectively disables NAT on the ISP router only for a single connected device on the ISP router downstream side: for obvious reasons, we will be connecting our OpenWrt router as this exposed host. So in the end, we have achieved single NAT solely in the network chain towards the OpenWrt router.
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 For more information, refer to [[docs:guide-user:network:wifi:relay_configuration|Wifi Extender or Repeater or Bridge Configuration]]. For more information, refer to [[docs:guide-user:network:wifi:relay_configuration|Wifi Extender or Repeater or Bridge Configuration]].
  
-Note: In case you are interested in creating a so called "wireless mesh" instead of a wireless repeater, you will have to refer to other projects like [[libremesh.org]] at this time.+Note: In case you are interested in creating a so called "wireless mesh" instead of a wireless repeater, you will have to refer to other projects, e.g. [[http://libremesh.org]] or [[https://open-mesh.org]] at this time.
  
  
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