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2nd satellite brings down network intermittently
I had the same problems. Seems I did find a workaround for this even if I have the feeling that there might be still a bug in the most recent firmware. The investigation was painful and time consumin...
Viking68 wrote:
I think there is a bug in the FW as in my opinion all LAN ports of a satellite should be freely configurable for VLAN (if not used for wired backhaul of course).
Reads more like an unexpected side effect merging the wired wireless backhaul VLAN when associating the (satellite only?) LAN ports with certain VLAN, or lack of a configuration consistency test. this should never happen, regardless on the admin does configure individual satellite and/or LAN ports, regardless if the satellite(s) and/or the router does operate on a wired or wireless backhaul. This situation must be properly captured and avoided.
Viking68 wrote:
If this works as intended please point me to some documentation on how to properly us VLANs on these devices.
Unlikely works as intended of course.
BruceGuo please. So obvious - the VLANs can be easily mixed up on such mixed installations.
YeZ That's the price for not giving Netgear's pro networking beta cracks the opportunity ever beta test any Orbi Pro systems.
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