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hackwright
May 18, 2020Tutor
LAN Cross-Pollination?
I've been having a relative nightmare with my Orbi over last week or so and today may be the topper. My (current) setup includes an RBR50 (v2) and RBS50 with wireless backhaul connection type. B...
hackwright
May 18, 2020Tutor
I forgot to mention... my RBR50's operation mode is "Router" and is also acting as a DHCP server. Remote Management is disabled. Daisy-Chain Topology is enabled. RIP Direction is Both but RIP Version is Disabled. I have NOT setup Access Control (but am strongly considering it).
And even more interesting, when I enable Access Control and view the list of allowed devices not currently connected to the network, I think I've found my "proof" as there are about 34 devices on the list. Most of them are listed as "wired" connections and since I've had this router there is NO WAY I've had that many devices connected via ethernet which aren't actively connected right now. This is nuts. In fact, the number of wired devices on this list actually EXCEEDS the number of wired devices I actually have on my network. There are only a couple that I recognize...