Hello!

 

I just subscribed to the forum hoping that there will be some TPLink engineer here or users experienced in the expected behavior for CPE devices.

 

I am in a cabin complex where we are currently using a CPE210 to distribute internet wirelessly between the devices of the people who live in each cabin.

 

This is a brand new device put into operation on Thursday of last week. Before that we had a CPE WA5210G that had been in operation for several years and since we found some strange behavior, we changed it to the CPE210. But also on this device I am seeing unexpected behavior from a routing point of view. I don't know if this is a "feature" of TPLink or something that can be changed. That is why I would like to discuss this with you.

 

I am doing the test from my cabin, from where we have this topology:

 

My notebook (wifi)-> cabin router [192.168.2.1] (wifi)-> CPE210 [192.168.0.254] (wired)-> Mikrotik [192.168.88.1] -> <Internet>

 

The router in my cabin is a TP-Link TL-WDR3600 with OpenWRT.

 

To do the tests I am using mtr from my notebook with Debian GNU/Linux. In the mtr tests it is throwing a rather peculiar result that I think is due to something in the CPE210 (as I mentioned before, it also happened with the previous CPE WA5210G):

 

 

 

As you can see, in several hops the IP of my notebook (192.168.2.100) is repeated as the LAN IP of the CPE (192.168.0.254). The test under normal conditions should look something like this:

 

 

Here we have another test. Under normal conditions it should look like this:

 

 

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Kind regards,

Daniel