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imjustabill's avatar
Jan 07, 2021
Status:
New Idea

MR60/MS60: cannot ping wired devices from wifi network

With the MR60 + 2*MS60 configured as a router, my wired devices (e.g. a Synology NAS) could not be seen from my wifi devices (e.g. a Macbook Air), and vice-versa, but wifi devices could see one another.

 

Solution/workaround: I put my old TP-Link router back in place as a router, with wifi disabled, and then configured my MR60 as an access point.  Now my wired and wifi devices can all see one another.  I am back in business accessing my NAS from my Mac notebooks.  I now lack the security and logging features that I had with the MR60 in router mode, but at least my home network is now in a working state.  My wired devices (NAS + printer + voip telephone box) are attached to the MR60 ethernet port via a Netgear switch.  My old TP-link router now has just one ethernet cable to FIOS internet and one ethernet cable to the MR60 WAN port.

 

I would love to have some sort of firmware update that would allow traffic to/from the wired ports on the MR60/MS60 to be bridged/switched onto the wifi network, so that my wifii devices could talk with my wired NAS when the MR60 is in router mode.  Then I could finally discard my old TP-link router, which is slowing down my uploads, and whose security is probably less up-to-date than the new MR60's security.

 

Many thanks to Louie from customer support ticket # 43957276 who spent a lot of time trying several possible ideas to help me out via chat yesterday.  While we were not able to resolve the issue with the MR60 in router mode, I do appreciate the support.  I hope we can find out from the firmware experts whether this is a feature or a bug.  It sure seems like a bug to me: if you have a shared printer or shared NAS plugged into a wired port, you certainly want to be able to reach it from your wifi network.

1 Comment

  • We resolved this last week, thanks to Jason in L2 support. I posted a longer message in another thread. Issue was synology NAS firewall had rules set to allow 192.168.0.* whereas new MR60 router switched over to 192.168.1.*, so even though NAS was getting 192.168.1.* LAN address via DHCP from MR60, its firewall was rejecting local pings. As far as I can tell, it was "user error" on my part.