I have a hAP lite which I bought some years ago and stored it in the shelf for most of the time, now I want to reconfigure it to test a network setup. However, I cannot, by any means, connect to it.
When I reset it with the reset button (unplug power, hold reset, add power, keep holding until LED flashes), this does not seem to have any effect
A Wireless AP that I configured some years ago is still online
When only connecting my laptop to any of the ether2…4 ports and pinging it, one out of 100 pings succeed, all others result in a timeout
When I connect to the MikroTik WLAN, I can access the hAP for a few seconds with the Mikrotik app, then my phone is disconnected
When I flash the hAP with netboot (latest OS), the update succeeds
After updating, the hAP STILL has the old configuration, the WLAN AP I added years ago, etc.
What is happening here? How can I get this hAP to be reset for good and to work again?
… well, in fact I was misreading the symptoms, and the problem is a different one.
The hAP probably reset correctly. The WLAN which I thought was persisting was in fact from a different access point and had nothing to do with the hAP.
After doing some more experiments (I have a hAP, a hEX, an ac³, and a RB260), I again had the issue that pinging the hAP would succed in one of 100 cases and otherwise time out. That annoyed the hell out of me, and I decided there was no point in trying to get the network configuration right when I cannot even access the hAP, and gave up for the time being.
Today I power up all devices again, and I can ping the hAP and connect to it like it had never been different. And I bet that I will run into the issue again.
Can this be related to outdated ARP entries or something else that is cached on my laptop? I connected it to different devices over ethernet, trying to access them on 192.168.88.1, which always worked except for the hAP after some time.