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XR500 Can't reach wired nodes from wireless
Hi, For some reason I can't reach wired nodes from wireless ones (and vice versa) on my network. Router is an XR500. I'm running a proxmox server on a wired machine which I can reach perfect...
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
Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I gave that a try and it didn't change the behavior on either the guest or non guest networks.
I also can't connect between devices on the different wireless networks. 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.
All IP's are in the same subnet and everything. I must be missing something pretty simple.
What make and model are the wireless nodes exactly?
In Device Manager, are you able to see all devices or are you only able to see the access points?
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 & 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)
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.
It's even effecting the Chromecasts now that I think about it. 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. 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.
It seems that I'm in the same boat as this person (and a few others): https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Pro-Gaming-Routers/XR500-VLAN-tagging-making-wifi-devices-unable-to-communicate/td-p/1842061
I'm currently running XR500 V2.3.2.56 so yes I could update to V3 (I'm assuming it's out of beta). 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.
