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Wired backhaul configured but still shows WLAN Backhaul Statistics
I've got an RBR-50 (configured as an AP) with satellites configured using wired ethernet backhaul. The GUI shows all the satellites connected using wired backhaul. When I go to advanced -> admin...
heathweather wrote:The R7900 handles DHCP.
Moved everything back to the 24 port managed switch, and power cycled only the RBR50.
Silence other than the beacon on the WLAN backhaul.
...and how did you configure the Orbi??
Left its configuration alone - it's still in AP mode.
I rebooted it through the GUI, and there was a small amount of WLAN backhaul traffic.
I've just powered off all satellites and the RBR50, and now powered on the RBR50. I'm going to observe as each satellite comes online.
After the reboot, there was a little traffic on the WLAN backhaul, and it's been quiet since, outside of the polling/beacon. All satellites show up as wired.
The statistics for WLAN are odd. For example, the WLAN Backhaul Tx B/s and Rx B/s values gradually decreased over time to now, where Tx is 0 and Rx is 2, as if the metric is Bytes/Up Time and not Bytes in the polling interval.
It's been just over a week, and everything is working well. In the last 7+ days, there has been very little WLAN backhaul traffic.
After the last reboot, there had been 526 RxPkts, now its at 2248 RxPkts. The TxPkts has continued to increment from its polling/beacon, I believe this must be the RBR50 sending a beacon for potential satellites (perhaps new ones?)
I never did as ekhalil recommended and reset all the satellites.
What I did do was move all the satellites to an 8 port switch, everything seemed good. Then moved back to the 24 port switch, everything has been right since.
No idea why it had gotten to the point where it was heavily using the WLAN backhaul even through it showed all the satellites as wired.
It still shows as wired on the backhaul now, as it did before, but all the traffic is not on the WLAN backhaul, it's on the wired LAN.
Thanks to everyone that has chipped in, I appreciate your help!
