New - RBR850/RBS850 Firmware Version 4.6.9.11 Released

So, we have a much nicer picture now!

So exactly what was the issue?  

Well there were 2.  As one of the helpers here pointed out, it appeared my factory reset but seemingly bricked RBS was, in fact, not getting an IP address.  But the fun part is why it was not getting an IP address.

My wired backhaul setup has an unmanaged switch behind the RBR, which then connects to each RBS.  However, when I set this up a couple of years ago there were major problems and I could not get it to work.  However on one of the forums I found a tip, to wire the connection from RBR to the switch via the WAN port, and plug the internet connection into any other of the Ethernet ports on the RBR.

Well that worked fine until now.  Once I ripped everything down to the minimum (just what I thought was a direct connection from ISP modem to RBR) showed me solid magenta on the RBR....no IP.  This was the ethernet cable going to the unmanaged switch.  Plugging the 'correct' cable into the RBR Wan port kinda solved all current issues. 

So now I do not know if .11 introduced this, or if this was a previous firmware and I was just oblivious to it (as things 'appeared' to be working) - but somewhere along the line the functionality of the RBR Wan port has been changed to what would be 'expected behaviour'

Thank you ALL for your help here!

Please edit out any MAC addresses from your pictures before posting in a public forum for security reasons. 

To ensure that RBS are updated properly, update ALL RBS first to v.11 then the RBR lastly. 

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Seanster wrote:

All are on 4.6.8.5, rolled it all back this morning

BUT...making progress

 

 

Still working through this, a very interesting explanation coming up of what I think happened...

 

 

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