[ale] router/laptop disconnect

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Mon Feb 3 09:57:16 EST 2020


Also check for wifi isolation/client isolation.  Most routers do this by
messing up the MAC addresses of other clients to prevent clients from
discoveing each other.

On 2020-02-03 06:41, Pete Hardie via Ale wrote:
> Are all devices on same 2.4 or 5ghz? I found that my wifi AP does not
> bridge the 2 bands even though it assigns IPs from same subnet on both
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2020, 09:29 Sean Kilpatrick via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
>> laptop somehow connects wirelessly to router and can reach the WAN.
>> But cannot reach printer on the LAN. Cannot ping anything on LAN.
>> Router thinks the laptops MAC address is one thing.  But that is a
>> mythical MAC address according to the laptop.
>>
>> Clues would be appreciated.
>>
>> Sean
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