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VIRTUAL MAC ADDRESS
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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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?
DarrenM
Hi,
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.
It doesn't make sense.
Thanks for the reply.
I am having the same problem. The IP address for 2G of EX8000 is on some virtual IP address. How do I resrve it ??
The extender needs to relay the packets from the client to the router, and it needs to keep track of the two data flows. Translating the old mac address to a new one to the backhaul packets is a simple way to do that.
There is information on this on page 32 of the EX8000 manual here: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/EX8000/EX8000_UM_EN.pdf
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.
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 anymore, but adding new devices is a real pain.
Thanks!
