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Orbi multiple Mac Addresses
I have an ORBI router and two satellites. The router has MAC Address A0:04:60:22:1A:B2. I have a network scanner (fingbox) which every day reports a "Rogue Access Point" with the MAC address A6:04:60...
sThe Orbi router has 4 wireless interfaces, or 6 if you use a guest network:
normal 2.4 GHz
normal 5 GHz
guest 2.4 GHz
guest 5 GHz
backhaul 2.4 GHz
backhaul 5 GHz
Each of these naturally have different MAC addresses. The backhaul interfaces do not broadcast their SSID, so perhaps those are the networks showing up as "rogue"? (I'm not sure what a Fingbox considers to be rogue).
ADDITIONALLY, every satellite you have will also be broadcasting the normal (and possibly guest) SSIDs for each frequency using separate MAC addresses, so that's up to 4 additional SSID/MAC combinations per satellite. If you have daisy-chaining of satellites enabled, then I presume that satellites would also be broadcasting (hidden) backhaul networks as well, but I haven't tried this, so I haven't seen it myself (yet).
Interesting. Where can I find or discover these various addresses?
Thanks
Indirectly, you can use a WiFi scanner to see the various addresses that are being broadcast.
If you want to see them directly, I think the best way is to log into the router and/or satellites via the debug telnet interface, and view the network devices there.
