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V2.1.3.4 Bridging
Starting a new thread specific to my issue. So I woke up this morning to V2.1.3.4 being installed. Not only was my wireless network down but so was my wired network. Started troublshooting and notice...
Would still be interested to know if testing exhibits the same problem with a non managed switch.
Ok, just used a Netgear 5 port 10/100/1000M Switch GS605 v2 unmanaged switch and saw the same behavior. Here's what I did:
1. Moved all in-scope ethernet cables to the GS605 switch and saw green link lights on everything.
2. Plugged Macbook into the Orbi satellite and started tcpdump and turned off wireless
3. Rebooted Orbi router, satellite, and waiting for everything to come back up
4. Noticed a spike in traffic (5mbits) and observed a huge amount of broadcast traffic on my Macbook's ethernet. Another server I have with snmp monitoring also saw 5mbits of traffic.
5. Telnet'd into the satellite and ran 'brctl stp br0 1' and saw broadcast traffic back to normal -- which took a while because the network was getting murdered by the flood.
Hope this helps!