RE305 and RE450

RE305 and RE450

RE305 and RE450
RE305 and RE450
a week ago
Model: RE450  
Hardware Version: V4
Firmware Version: 1.0.20 build 230213

I have a VR2100 setup in router mode and 2x mesh nodes an RE305 and RE450 both nodes mesh up no issues with the VR2100 but here is the weird issue, both mesh nodes are setup with static addresses in their settings and in the wireless client section of the VR2100 both nodes appear fine and display correctly when setup but then as soon as i connect clients to either mesh node the node then displays the client address that just connected to it and not its own designated IP address. Everytime i refresh the client list on the VR2100 the mesh nodes will reappear and disappear in the VR2100's list displaying this first client that connects to its address.

 

I did post something similar earlier and have attempted reserving IP addresses for clients connected but not the nodes as they have static IP addresses allocated.

This issue is frustrating when i go into the VR2100 and see both nodes basically spoofing client addresses. I need to get both nodes prefererably not showing up at all in the client list as they are nodes not clients. Only my client devices should show up in the wireless client list on my VR2100.

 

Really some assistance much appreciated, someone else spoke about proxy and mac spoofing etc but i did not 100 percent understand how to resolve issue i have even attempted to seperate radios and SSID's to no avail. I have tried to setup from scratch also but nothing helps. Someone suggested taking both nodes out of mesh mode and run as extenders but this defeats the purposes of these mesh node with roaming devices and prefer to have them operating in mesh mode but not smart mode (band steered) as i have seperated the radios.

 

All mesh nodes should not display as clients and should be hidden from the wireless client list when in mesh mode perhaps this is a bug in the wireless client list section on why this keeps occuring.

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Re:RE305 and RE450
a week ago

  @FiGgS 

 

Here's your old thread regarding the same issue. You've stated that the issue has gone and asked the thread closed.

If this was helpful click once on the arrow pointing upward. If this solves your issue, click once the star to mark it as a "Recommended Solution".
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Re:RE305 and RE450
a week ago

Hi  @FiGgS 

 

The situation you described is mainly due to the proxy mode/many to one mode of Range extender.

The specific working process is that after the client connects to the Range extender, the VR2100 updates the ARP, and the client's IP will be displayed in the client list, but the MAC address is still the MAC address of the Range extender.

In other words, the situation you encountered is normal, and this is the current design.

Note: ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) is a network protocol used to resolve network layer addresses (such as IPv4 addresses) to link layer addresses (such as MAC addresses).

For more details about this situation, you can also refer to the following connection between Proxy Mode and Range extender:

Proxy Mode - Retrieve Virtual MAC Address from the Wi-Fi Range Extender

 

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Re:RE305 and RE450
a week ago - last edited a week ago

  @Joseph-TP Totally understandable but the said client that shows the extenders mac address also replicates its own identity in the list with same ip and mac as it should...just the replication bug the client list shows. At the moment i have just the RE450 node meshed with some clients connected to it and some the VR2100 smooth sailing with everything showing in list as it should. I took the RE305 off of the mesh and just running that as its own extension. I may of resolved the issues of it showing up ( like bug) I assume it actually should just hide the node in the client status once a client is connected to it. That is how i think it should work anyway.

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Re:RE305 and RE450
Thursday - last edited Thursday

I really hate how the Router does this I thought it had corrected itself but whenever there is a change on the network the VR2100 continues to display client ip address instead of its own assigned one. At some points both nodes will display the correct addresses but then revert back. I recommend TP-Link simply hide any extenders or mesh nodes connected and only display actual connected clients. As far as I am concerned access points are not clients they are access points and should only display as such in VR2100 not under wireless client list displaying an incorrect ip address, can this bug be fixed by simply hiding proxied mac addresses in the client list somehow maybe have them in a proxy list elsewhere.

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Re:RE305 and RE450
Friday

Hi   @FiGgS 

 

Hello, thank you for posting on the TP-Link community, and we certainly appreciate all your feedback and feature request(s) here.

While we don't have any specific details that I can share, I will promptly report your feedback to the relevant technical department.


Feel free to let us know of any other feature requests you may have, we’d be happy to send them up for you.

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