Hi Karl, I have run a 5009 behind starlink and it works great. You just need a DHCP client and depending on whether or not you need the CGNAT V4 + V6 or CGNAT + Starlink Router NAT defines whether or not you need the device in bypass mode or not. You do need the ethernet adaptor to make it work though. Its $60. On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 7:28 PM Karl Auer <kauer@nullarbor.com.au> wrote:
Wondering if anyone has any tips here. A client has acquired a company whose office has a Starlink connection. This client also has an existing office with an NBN connection. The latter is connected to a Mikrotik that does plain old DHCP to get its WAN address from the NPN.
Now the client wants to use the acquired company's office instead. They want to move the Mikrotik there and keep more or less the same network behind it that they have now.
They've done the obvious thing and just plugged the WAN interface on the Mikrotik into an Ethernet port on the Starlink router, but no go. "No go" in this case means that PCs on the inside network don't have Internet access, and that's as far as they know how to go.
I have never seen the new office or the Starlink router (or any Starlink routers). I have no idea if they connected the right Mikrotik interface to it. In fact I don't even know if the port on the Starlink router is in fact an Ethernet port. My searching on the subject finds numerous articles saying that Starlink routers have no Ethernet ports, that additional hardware must be purchased from Starlink and talking about "Bypass Mode", none of which is inspiring...
Anyway, if anybody has run a small network behind Mikrotik using a Starlink router as the WAN connnection can share any info, that'd be great.
Many thanks in advance, K.
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