Can't get drop in mode to work properly

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@psychobunny

Maybe I misunderstood, I thought drop in mode was the feature used if a customer has a router already that they want to keep. Can someone let me know how I’d set this up in that case then? I’ve mentioned Peplink to many of my customers but I always get the same response “We already have Cisco routers and firewalls and are not changing. If you can load balance or do hot fail over with our existing equipment then we are interested but we are not replacing the Cisco.” So just confused how that works if I want to keep using my existing router and wifi.

The below article might give you a better picture of the real world deployment.

Deploying Peplink | Pepwave products in Drop-in mode

Drop-in Mode allows Peplink | Pepwave products to be deployed in a network without configuration changes on existing network infrastructure. Example: Pre-Installation In the following network diagram, ISP A provides a 24-bit network 210.10.10.2 / 255.255.255.0, 210.10.10.1 is the default gateway. The Firewall is performing NAT (Network Address Translation) for Local Area Network 192.168.1.0/2 to access the Internet. Firewall settings: NAT Enabled External Interface IP: 210.10.10.2/24 Defau…

As for your issues on the AP One, it would be better to handle via a support ticket.

@psychobunny

Regarding the AP’s not working, I don’t know what the issue is but what I do know is that after 2 days of messing with them I’ve come to the realization that it’s far too much work to make them work compared to what we have today.