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hwoeurtl1
Jul 16, 2021Follower
Nighthawk RAX200 - ethernet port becomes disabled randomly
Using the Nighthawk RAX200 with Firmware Version V1.0.4.120_1.0.61 Randomly, perhaps every few days or so, any of the ethernet ports on the back of RAX200 become disabled, meaning I can't access ...
antinode
Jul 18, 2021Guru
> [...] any of the ethernet ports on the back of RAX200 become disabled,
> meaning I can't access the internet through the device on that port.
> [...]
Does that mean that one of the ports fails at a time, unrelated to
which device is connected to it? Other ports continue to work?
Do wireless device connections also fail when this happens? What all
fails when one failure is detected.
> [...] when I connect a device through that port once it has become
> disabled, my device can recognize, assign itself an IP address but
> cannot connect to the internet. [...]
Does "assign itself an IP address" mean that your (unspecified) "a
device" got a self-assigned address in the "169.254.x.y" range? That
would suggest that the device can't communicate with router's DHCP
server.
> How do I get ports on the back of the router to not randomly disable?
Blame assignment is Job One. Test/swap cables. Move devices to
different ports. Observe/record which devices fail when connected
where.
I wouldn't expect a single port to fail to communicate on its own,
especially if its port-status LED is still good, and then recover with a
router restart. Bad hardware is always a possibility, however.