XR500 Can't reach wired nodes from wireless

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Hi,&nbsp;For some reason I can't reach wired nodes from wireless ones (and vice versa) on my network.&nbsp; Router is an XR500.&nbsp;I'm running a proxmox server on a wired machine which I can reach perfectly fine from other wired nodes, but not from wireless ones.&nbsp; From wireless nodes I can ping the IP address and even use traceroute on the correct port without issue.&nbsp; Whenever I try to reach it in the browser it times out and gives me a socket not connected error.&nbsp; &nbsp;Even trying to ssh to it doesn't work.&nbsp; Both the browser and ssh'ing work from wired nodes, the issue is only from wireless nodes.&nbsp;On the router I've made an IP reservation for the proxmox server and adjusted the DHCP IP range so it doesn't lease IP's that the proxmox server would use for VMs.&nbsp; My ISP also required the WAN to be setup to run on VLAN 2 - I'm not sure if that would cause any issues. I haven't adjusted anything else to get the internet working on all my devices.&nbsp;Any help would be greatly appreciated!&nbsp;CheersJase

Netduma-Fraser · Answer

Make a guest WiFi network and then enable the option for them to be able to communicate with the local network, connect to that WiFi and then see if it works

JaseG · Answer

Hi,&nbsp; thanks for the suggestion.&nbsp; I gave that a try and it didn't change the behavior on either the guest or non guest networks.&nbsp;I also can't connect between devices on the different wireless networks.&nbsp; It's the same deal as between the wired and wireless networks - I can ping / traceroute but can't actually reach anything that I'm hosting.&nbsp;All IP's are in the same subnet and everything.&nbsp; I must be missing something pretty simple.

Netduma-Liam · Answer

What make and model are the wireless nodes exactly?&nbsp;
In Device Manager, are you able to see all devices or are you only able to see the access points?

JaseG · Answer

In the device manager of the router I can see both the 2.4 and 5gig AP's, the guest AP's when that was activated (and things connected to it), as well as the LAN network. I can see all online devices as expected and the mac / ip addresses match up to what I can see on each computer. The APs &amp; LAN connections all displayed as separate entities in the device manager graph, which is a good representation of what I can access from each network - I'm not sure if that's a clue (see attached screenshot)&nbsp;I've got a variety of things on the home network - a mac book, a few gaming laptops (which I switch between wired / wireless for this test), a few gaming PC's, then there's a few chrome casts, google nest and other things like that.&nbsp;It's even effecting the Chromecasts now that I think about it.&nbsp; The one in the kitchen is a bit further away from the router so I've got that on the 2.4gig AP and the one in the lounge is on 5gig.&nbsp; I have to switch to the appropriate wireless network on my phone to be able to chrome cast as expected, and i've never been able to do it from a wired machine.&nbsp;

JaseG · Answer

It seems that I'm in the same boat as this person (and a few others):&nbsp;&nbsp;https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Pro-Gaming-Routers/XR500-VLAN-tagging-making-wifi-devices-unable-to-communicate/td-p/1842061I'm currently running&nbsp;XR500&nbsp;V2.3.2.56 so yes I could update to V3 (I'm assuming it's out of beta).&nbsp; I'm also tempted to just leave sleeping dogs lie and invest in other gear that I can test thoroughly before putting it into use. I can't risk any downtime due to a dodgy firmware update.&nbsp;

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XR500 Can't reach wired nodes from wireless

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