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DaveM1234
Aspirant
Nov 10, 2023
Solved

Wired devices not routing: Orbi RBR50, RBS50

Hello, My Orbi mesh system suddenly stopped routing wired devices. I had an RBR50 with two satellites (RBS50 and RBS20) previously working well. Suddenly my wired devices stopped routing. Cur...
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  • DaveM1234's avatar
    DaveM1234
    Nov 10, 2023

    I solved it.  I am embarressed to say, I had a killswitch process running in the background.  I had to go in through the CLI and kill the process then I got right through.

     

    Thanks for all of the help.

DaveM1234's avatar
DaveM1234
Aspirant
Nov 10, 2023

First, thank you for the assistance.

 

Laptop is Windows with McAffee Ultimate running.

Firewall is Windows Defender.  I enabled ICMP Echo requests:

But still no luck.

From the wired connection, I cannot ping any outside address, the external wan interface on the RBR50, or any internet FQDN or IP such as 8.8.8.8.

Router settings are:

 

Connected devices:

Thanks again for the assist.

DaveM1234's avatar
DaveM1234
Aspirant
Nov 10, 2023

I solved it.  I am embarressed to say, I had a killswitch process running in the background.  I had to go in through the CLI and kill the process then I got right through.

 

Thanks for all of the help.

  • CrimpOn's avatar
    CrimpOn
    Guru - Experienced User
    Nov 11, 2023

    Glad there was no issue with the Orbi.  I was totally stumped.