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kywong's avatar
kywong
Aspirant
Apr 11, 2020

Orbi in AP mode

I currently using RBR50 as access point and connected it to the switch.  On one of the satellites, I connected a PC to one of the ethernet ports.  The PC works well with internet access.  However, I am unable to ping certain IPs in the local network but able to connect to them eg network drive.   Very strange.  Any comments?

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  • ekhalil's avatar
    ekhalil
    Master
    Apr 11, 2020
    As replied in the other post:
    Many devices do not allow ping (ICMP messages) for security reasons. Some of these devices have this configurable in the security settings.
    In -as a similar example- Orbi settings, you can disable replying to ping requests on WAN.