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azfarm
Jul 23, 2018Aspirant
Repeated broadcast storms when using a wired satellite with RBR50
I am using RBR50 with one RBS50 satellite wired to a port on the Router. The RBR50 is in router mode. I have the latest firmware (V2.1.4.16) on both the router and satellite. I have read the threads ...
azfarm
Jul 23, 2018Aspirant
What all connected to the RBR and Satellite when this happens?
>> In addition to what I mentioned below, there is a connection from a netgear fast ethernet switch to the RBR50 with other wired devices (PC's, printer) behind it. All other devices (about a dozen) are connecting over wifi to either the RBR50 or RBS50 depending on where they are in the house.
Interesting that the reserved IP address needs to be in the range of DHCP assigned IP address. What does that have anything to do with a broadcast storm? Yes, I could put a static ip address on the satellite and the reason I didn't do it is to avoid messing with multiple devices and forgetting about it, as well as avoiding the potential of a DHCP bug in the RBR50 causing IP address conflicts. (if Netgear can let broadcast storm slip out like these, anything is possible). --- disclosure: I am IP and DHCP literate, if its not already obvious.
Daisy Chain was enabled and I have just disabled it. Will boot up the Satellite now and see how things go. The network was stable for a few days before this happened again, so let's see if the daisy chain switch does something. My bet is that Netgear has a pretty serious bug hiding in there that they need to debug and fix.
azfarm
Jul 23, 2018Aspirant
>>Daisy Chain was enabled and I have just disabled it. Will boot up the Satellite now and see how things go.
Well, this failed miserably! The moment the satellite came up, the network went nuts. Wireshark shows ARP storms galore originating from multiple machines (including my desktop). Powered down the satellite and everyone calms down immediately.
Any other suggestions?
NETGEAR, are you listening??