Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:47 pm
… 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Can this be related to outdated ARP entries or something else that is cached on my laptop?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.