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dckiwi
May 15, 2021Guide
RBS850 - satellite acting as rogue DHCP server
I have an Orbi Wifi 6 setup (1 router, 2 satellites). One of the satellites has a wired connection to a switch, which is connected to the router (via an ethernet backhaul) and to other devices. ...
dckiwi
May 24, 2021Guide
Thanks for your reply!
The interesting/puzzling thing is that the devices that are failing to get IP addresses don't need to 'go through' the RBS at all. They are connected to the same switch as the RBS, and that switch is connected to the Ethernet cable that runs to the main Orbi router. The RBS is just plugged into that switch in order to service wifi clients in that area.
In other words, the DHCP request should go:
cliient -> switch -> main Orbi router.
And yet somehow the RBS that is connected to that same switch is interfering with that request, because when I unplug the RBS the client suddenly gets a valid IP.
FURRYe38
May 25, 2021Guru
What is the Mfr and model# of the ethernet switch in the configuration?