EAP211/215 bridge with EAP650 plugged into LAN port doesn't act as wired?

EAP211/215 bridge with EAP650 plugged into LAN port doesn't act as wired?

19 Reply
Re:EAP211/215 bridge with EAP650 plugged into LAN port doesn't act as wired?
2024-07-25 02:34:09

  @d0ugmac1 

Let us wait for @UKJim to do the test. If there is an issue, I will report it to our relevant department.

  @UKJim 

Additionally, please take note that there cannot be an IP conflict with these three units.

Best Regards! >> Omada EAP Firmware Trial Available Here << >> Get the Latest Omada SDN Controller Releases Here << *Try filtering posts on each forum by Label of [Early Access]*
  0  
  0  
#12
Options
Re:EAP211/215 bridge with EAP650 plugged into LAN port doesn't act as wired?
2024-07-26 17:43:31

I'm having a similar problem. I've got an EAP650 outdoor connected via ethernet to the EAP215. Everything is great until the EAP650 switches to mesh uplink. Once it changes to mesh, I can only get it back to wired by forgetting it on the controller and readopting. It's happened twice this week, and I'm not sure what's causing it. 

 

I think there are two bugs/issues here:

1) I tried disabling mesh sitewide, since I don't need it, but disabling mesh took down the bridge. Disabling mesh should not burn EAP215/211 bridges.

2) EAP650 should either automatically switch back to wired uplink when wired connectivity returns, or there should be a method to switch it back in the controller's UI. 

 

WIFI isn't my forte, but I'm a pentester and technically competent. I can test things and provide logs if needed. For now, I've disabled auto failover, hoping it'll prevent the issue from occurring. 

  1  
  1  
#13
Options
Re:EAP211/215 bridge with EAP650 plugged into LAN port doesn't act as wired?
2024-07-26 17:51:16

  @dave_a3wrfjlk you should also set the preferred uplink node for each of your wireless meshed nodes if you haven't already.  Controller shows a gold star next to preferred uplink once done.

<< Paying it forward, one juicy problem at a time... >>
  0  
  0  
#14
Options
Re:EAP211/215 bridge with EAP650 plugged into LAN port doesn't act as wired?
2024-07-29 05:56:09 - last edited 2024-07-29 05:57:18

  @dave_a3wrfjlk 

You can also try to disable Mesh Auto Failover. However, if your Mesh network contains multiple devices, this may have an impact on it.

 

 

Best Regards! >> Omada EAP Firmware Trial Available Here << >> Get the Latest Omada SDN Controller Releases Here << *Try filtering posts on each forum by Label of [Early Access]*
  0  
  0  
#15
Options
Re:EAP211/215 bridge with EAP650 plugged into LAN port doesn't act as wired?
2024-08-19 19:37:17

  @UKJim wonder if this looks vaguely familiar :)

 

https://static.tp-link.com/upload/case-study/2024/202405/20240502/B2B_BMW%20Golf%20Tourney_Case%20StudyFINAL.pdf 

<< Paying it forward, one juicy problem at a time... >>
  0  
  0  
#16
Options
Re:EAP211/215 bridge with EAP650 plugged into LAN port doesn't act as wired?
2024-08-19 22:26:52 - last edited 2024-08-19 22:33:25

d0ugmac1 wrote

  @UKJim wonder if this looks vaguely familiar :)

 

https://static.tp-link.com/upload/case-study/2024/202405/20240502/B2B_BMW%20Golf%20Tourney_Case%20StudyFINAL.pdf 

  @d0ugmac1  @dave_a3wrfjlk  @Hank21 

Yeah thanks for that, I did see that case study a month or two ago and found it quite interesting. I also watched a couple of videos of the BMW Pro-Am event and watched out for sponsorship/branding. TD-Synnex and Teleco was the company who did the technical side of things, but there was no onsite branding for TP-Link which I thought was a pity. But maybe there are many such events that TP-Link never gets to hear about or are only made aware of afterwards.

 

I'm currently re-building sections of our showground kit live again back at my home (not easy replicating the behaviour of a massive showground in my back garden!) to analyze and recreate some of the issues we encountered so I can give an update on this LAN port problem (among other things I want to figure out), test out effect of the Mesh setting, Failover etc. I'm quite busy with other things and finding time to slot this in is not easy.

 

There are so many things from that weekend show that I'm still trying to wrap my head around. For instance I'm sure we experienced the WPA3/PMF association errors issue that the EAP650 has had a bad rap from and been accused of suffering from with older non-PMF capable client devices, but is actually an industry-wide problem encountered by ALL the big vendors, Ubiquiti/Unify, Aruba, Asus, MikroTik, not just TP-Link!

Jim Prior Cogitare et Vivare - sit atur ad Astra (To Think is to Live - Thus reach we the Stars)
  0  
  0  
#17
Options
Re:EAP211/215 bridge with EAP650 plugged into LAN port doesn't act as wired?
2024-08-20 00:10:01

  @UKJim I have the same situation with one of my installations using two sets of EAP115's with a 650 attached.  In both cases, the bridges show that they are wired and the 650's are meshing back to the bridge.  In one case, there's even a 5 port, unmanaged switch that both the 115 and the 650 are connected to.   I believe the fix to this would be to allow us to lock the client bridge AP manually like you can with both the AP's and Pharos equipment.  Hopefully, this is something that is a firmware fix.

  0  
  0  
#18
Options
Re:EAP211/215 bridge with EAP650 plugged into LAN port doesn't act as wired?
2024-08-20 15:01:22

Hi  @Gnac 

Thanks for your input. Do your 115s have any kind of port control interface? How many LAN ports do the 115s have? What is the difference between eap215 and eap115?

Gnac wrote

  @UKJim I have the same situation with one of my installations using two sets of EAP115's with a 650 attached.  In both cases, the bridges show that they are wired and the 650's are meshing back to the bridge.  In one case, there's even a 5 port, unmanaged switch that both the 115 and the 650 are connected to.   I believe the fix to this would be to allow us to lock the client bridge AP manually like you can with both the AP's and Pharos equipment.  Hopefully, this is something that is a firmware fix.

 

Jim Prior Cogitare et Vivare - sit atur ad Astra (To Think is to Live - Thus reach we the Stars)
  0  
  0  
#19
Options
Re:EAP211/215 bridge with EAP650 plugged into LAN port doesn't act as wired?
2024-08-20 22:01:48

  @UKJim They have three 10/100 ports on them with no port control interface.  I use these to extend wifi in public areas where there is already bandwidth limits and I don't need the speed of the more expensive models.

  0  
  0  
#20
Options
Related Articles