Does anyone have any idea why 4 M2000 access points work when connected directly to a netgear ADSL router, but only work intermittently when connected to an RB running hotspot services.
The M2000 is a single radio meshing access point - first one is connected directly to the RB , and the other 3 are remote mesh nodes. They bridge all traffic , and pass the DHCP from the RB to the client.
I have tried running them on a different IP subnet to the RB , and bypassing them in the hotspot settings to allow full access. Ive also set them to use an IP address on the range of the hotspot.
They do work, but its as though they forget routes - as though the RB is stopping some sort of broadcast. Ive spent around 4 days with this issue at 2 sites - have just installed at a 3rd and decided to leave the RB out of the equation this time and its workin fine.
Its got to be some hotspot filter/nat rule but im stumped.
Ive set up and used the mesh, working fine using the netgear.
Connected the RB750 and used it as the dhcp server, worked fine.
enabled the hotspot service, problems occurred.I think its an arp issue and have found a thread on disabling the ip pool and settin
5 the following nat rule (universal nat is already disabled as we dont use the ip-pool in hot spot settings)
Using wireshark, there seems to be a lot of requests from the mesh on the ethernet port asking who has what ip / mac and it appears that the hotspot is not giving out the details - could that be the case?
check your hotspot configuration, most probably you have not configured something properly, like add mesh nodes to allow access, or else they have to authenticate.