Hello!
I just got a PowerBoxPro (PBP) and have difficulties to find the right configuration. Here the boundary conditions:
The PBP is connected to my FritzBox (supplied from my InternetServiceProvider=ISP) by Ethernet using Port1 of PBP. I now want to connect my Notebook via Ethernet to any of the other Ethernet Ports 2-5 and want to go to Internet now with my Notebook.
All ports (incl. SFP) of the PBP shall be in the same network given by the Fritzbox. Let us assume that the FritzBox (router) spans the network 192.167.179.1 (used by Fritzbox itself) to 192.167.179.254.
The PBP shall be given a fixed IP-address, say e.g. 192.167.179.200 . I have no intention to generate subnets using the PBP (means that there will be no use for DHCP). Neither do I intend to use VLAN. At a later stage will I connect the PBP via fiber (SFP1) to the Mikrotik CRS112-8P-4S-IN router and that CRS will be connected to my Fritzbox by Ethernet. At that later stage (“Phase 2”) will the PBP Ethernet Ports be connected to 3 IP-network-cameras. Here my questions:
- How to configure the PBP so that I can go (“Phase I”) to Internet by my Notebook (which is connected via Ethernet to Port 1 of PBP) ?
- Is the mode “Router” the correct one for above “phase I” ?
- Is there any change to be made - if so which - for “phase 2” ? with the PBP ?
So far could I successfully update the firmware of PBP to the latest one and could I change some settings so that the PBP is “inside” the network of the Fritzbox. So I can enter the configuration page by my webbrowser (Notebook and PBP both connected to Fritzbox by Ethernet). But I cannot find a setting of PBP in order to go to Internet - when my Notebook is connected to e.g. Port 2 of PBP while FritzBox still connected to Port 1 of PBP.
If someone could give me some help I would be most gratefull. In “worst case” might I setup a “TeamViewer”-Session…