There is a help page located on the Mesh router that details exactly what the Mesh AP mode does. http://<node_name>:8080/help.html (link located on the left of the mesh node pages that says help).
Here's what the help file says:
In this mode the device is pre-configured to act as an access point providing standard wireless access to the LAN side of another mesh node. This is to be used on a second router whose LAN port is connected with the LAN port of a mesh node. It is a simple mode but there are special considerations, especially when you want to get out of this mode. See the section at the end called Mesh Access Point considerations for details.
Mesh Access Point considerations
When a device is configured in Mesh Access Point mode it is essentially
'transparent'. You are going through the device to reach a mesh node,
and there is no need to get to the device unless you wish to change its
configuration. When the time comes to reconfigure a device in this mode be
aware that it is not running its own DHCP server because that is the job of
the mesh node it is connected to. You will need some other way to configure
your computer's network interface. There are two ways to do this:
- Manual configuration
Connect only your computer to the LAN port. Set
your IP address to 172.27.0.100 and your netmask to 255.255.255.0. No other
settings are needed.
-
Automatic configuration
You will need another mesh node that is using NAT
mode on its LAN, and using the default LAN IP address of 172.27.0.1. Both of
these are required, otherwise this method will not work. Connect
both your computer and the LAN of the Mesh Access Point to the LAN of the mesh
node.
In this mode the default IP address on the LAN port is 172.27.0.2. After one
of the above steps you should be able to send your browser
to http://172.27.0.2:8080/. If you used
automatic configuration you should also be able to go
to http://localap:8080/. Like the name
"localnode", an automatically generated name exists called "localap" which is
set to the localnode address plus one, but only when the node LAN mode is set
to NAT. If you changed the default IP address of a Mesh Access Point you will
have to modify these instructions accordingly. |