Espressif Inc ESP32 or ESP8266 Wireless devices shown as WIRED in Omada
GW is ER7206 v1.0 1.4.1
Devices appear as WIRED, but cannot be. Seem to be IoT devices. They go to sleep and reappear. Some coming back with different last three octets. MAC ID lookup comes back as Espressif Inc, likely ESP32 or ESP8266. No data is recorded as transferred, which seems unlikely as these (likely) automation devices do contact their command and control server. Some devices that show up wired but show data transfer use spoofed Mac Addresses. While I cannot say that there are detrimental effects (not sure... Omada system has other hickups), perhaps this suggests a need to categorize and identify these devices uniquely? Handle them differently? They are showing up as wired to the GW or to a SWITCH. Filling up the Known Clients list! Some devices do show up with data transfered, but MAC ID comes back as unregistered. Can't block them either since they change or spoof MAC ID.
For lack of an IoT category, I'm OK leaving these in WIRED for now... rather than wireless. Just thought I'd bring it up for awareness.
Under DEVICES, the MAC ID shows up in the client group of the SWITCH. This snapshot is of an SG2008P switch, showing wired client connected to port 3 which feeds an EAP655. "Wired" client does not show up under EAP. Connectivity diagram shows same.
F4-4F-C6-1E-C8-F6; F4-4F-C6-1E-8A-3B; F4-4F-C6-1F-FE-AB;