Wanted to start a different thread from my random reboot thread -- because I am not sure if this is a related or non-related issue.

In my home system, I have an RBR970 previosly described in AP mode

Attached to my RBR are two RBS-971s. One is wired and one is not.

I monitor my network using FING (it is great - check it out if you haven't heard of it).

Here is the behavior that is hard to understand:

My WIRED RBS... always throws out two MAC addresses to the network. The first MAC begins with 28:94:01:XX:XX:XX. It has a DHCP reservation of 192.168.1.4.

There is a phantom MAC of 2A:94:01:XX:XX:XX which is EXTREMELY similar to my Wireless RBS that Fing detects at exactly the same IP address (192.168.1.4). I think it may be the wireless side of the RBE that -- should not be there if it is wired - if that makes any sense.

To test this behavior out, I moved this satellite from 192.168.1.5 (which also had the phantom MAC) to 192.168.1.4 and sure enough, the phantom MAC appears in my Fing network scan also at 192.168.1.4.

My network runs just fine. I bring this up only as a WTF moment.

The wireless RBS does not show any phantom MAC following it around. I am thinking that for some reason -- when in wired mode -- the system is reporting both the wireless and wired MAC across the network.

The Debug page on the RBS found at 192.168.1.4 reports:

Basic Information
Firmware Version :
V9.12.5.3
CPU Load :
15.81%
Memory Usage(Used/Total) :
622 MB/1743 MB
System Uptime :
0 days 0:19:30
Hop Count :
1
Bootloader Version :
U-Boot 2016.01_rtm-9.6.0.2 (May 27 2023 - 00:22:49 +0000)

I have attached a screen capture of the Fing device listing for discussion/my education

Look forward to any thoughts on this one!

Maybe I need to reflash the firmware?? Maybe this is normal for a wired RBS?

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Two MACs from One RBE 971