VIRTUAL MAC ADDRESS

Question

While trying to connect the EX8000 to my R7800, the R7800 detects several different MAC addresses from the EX8000. The EX8000 shows 4 virtual MAC addresses in the connected device status page.
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Which of these are required? The reason why I ask is I could not connect the EX8000 to use the 5 ghz backhaul and the 2.4 ghz fronthaul on the EX8000. It connected once and ran for about 12 hours. In the morning, I found that it had disconnected and would not connect again.
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There are no articles on the internet as to what these virtual MACs are for the EX8000.
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Any assistance figuring this out would be appreciated.

DarrenM · Answer

You should be able to add the mac address on the box to the white list of the router. If not have you tried to add all of them?

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DarrenM

kusojiji · Answer

Hi,
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The box has 8C:3B... MACs that do not show up at all in my ACL as blocked or allowed. I see 92:3B and 02:0F MACs in the ACL, with the same last 3. The 92:3B attaches itself to IPs that are assigned to other devices and roams around.
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It doesn't make sense.
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Thanks for the reply.

lehigh1 · Answer

I am having the same problem.&nbsp; The IP address for 2G of EX8000 is on some virtual IP address.&nbsp; How do I resrve it ??&nbsp;

StephenB · Answer

The extender needs to relay the packets from the client to the router, and it needs to keep track of the two data flows.&nbsp; Translating the old mac address to a new one to the backhaul packets is a simple way to do that.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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There is information on this on page 32 of the EX8000 manual here:&nbsp;http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/EX8000/EX8000_UM_EN.pdf

kusojiji · Answer

Sorry, I don't get it. How does this translate to the EX8000 having multiple MAC addresses? I understand the translation for devices connected through the EX8000, but not the EX8000 itself.
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I ended up having two MAC addresses that seem to be required, the rest don't seem to be needed. I don't f-around with this thing too much&nbsp;anymore, but adding new devices is a real pain.
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Thanks!

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