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How to turn off firewall on Orbi
I am trying to connect a Lutron Radio RA2 repeater to my network and the aoft3are is not finding it even though it is plugged in to my main Orbi router. It has been suggested that I turn off the fir...
My guess is the firewall is not relevant. The firewall blocks connections from the internet. It does not look at or interfere with packets within the Orbi LAN. It will be interesting to see if using an "actual Windows computer" will make any difference. (I think the odds are "not", but I have reached the point of "trying anything" many times.)
When the repeater is connected to the Orbi ethernet LAN, does it appear on the Orbi web interface display of "Attached Devices"? I'm wondering how the Lutron app finds repeaters. Some systems do broadcasts, "Any ??? on the network?", and wait to see if any device(s) respond. That way, they learn the IP address(s) of the devices and can talk directly to them through the LAN.
Another possibility is to connect the repeater directly to the computer for setup, which gets into the idea of assigning static IP's.
I just looked at attached devices and the repeater is correctly recognized as being directly attached. I think I will fire up the Windows computer tomorrow and try that as the next step.
How do you have your network configured on your parallels VM? You should be using a bridged network. Additionally ensure that both your Mac and your Windows VM do not have their firewalls turned on. Additionally if you are bridging a wireless connection on your mac it might be blocking broadcast/multicast packets. This MIGHT be resolved by using a USB ethernet adapter and conencting it directly to the VM using USB sharing.