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dlcrow
Aspirant
Sep 14, 2026

RBE970/RBE971 Routing Issues

I have an Orbi RBE970/RBE971 mesh environment that was set to auto-upgrade, but I noticed it was still running 9.12.4.16 even though the firmware update page said that upgrades were available. I used...
orbi 970 series
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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 15, 2026
dlcrow wrote:

After the upgrade, I am seeing some LAN to LAN network connections appear to the server on the connection (HTTP, SSH, etc.) to come from the internet interface.

What is the switch and firewall topology?