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dlcrow
Sep 14, 2026Aspirant
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...
dlcrow
Sep 15, 2026Aspirant
The Orbi is my firewall. I have a Netgear GS108 switch directly connected to the Orbi that handles the rest of the ethernet traffic in the house, but none of the hosts described above are connected to it. They are all either wireless to the router (not a satellite) or direct ethernet to the router.
StephenB
Sep 15, 2026Guru - Experienced User
dlcrow wrote:The Orbi is my firewall. I have a Netgear GS108 switch directly connected to the Orbi that handles the rest of the ethernet traffic in the house, but none of the hosts described above are connected to it. They are all either wireless to the router (not a satellite) or direct ethernet to the router.
Thx. So when you talk about the "linux firewall", are you actually talking about the iptables config in your $A.1 linux server?
dlcrow wrote:
HTTP connections from $A.1 to $B (which is port forwarded back to $A.1) timeout.
So hairpinning from $A.1 to $A.1 doesn't work.
Do HTTP connections from $1.138 to $B work ok?
ssh from MacBook1 and MacBook2 to $A.1 fails because the Linux server ($A.1) sees it as coming from $B.
Does traceroute give any clues?
Maybe take a packet trace on whatever physical server is hosting $A.1, and take a look at the source addresses.