BEFW11S4 v4 begins to talk to Router through LAN port

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cjtwantstoknow@yahoo.com (Chris) wrote in
news:cf84a22f.0409250245.6ab8b9fa@posting.google.com:

> My configuration has been a DI-604 (wired DLink router) connected to a
> BEFW11S4 v4 (Linksys wireless router) LAN port. The clients that
> connect through the Linksys router need to pass the MAC filter on the
> DLink router. DHCP on the Linksys router has been turned off.

OK

> I don't believe that the Linksys AP should be talking to anything -
> nor is it behaving as a router.

What do you mean by that? Of course, Linksys is communicating with the
gateway router. It may be acting as a switch but it is communicating with
the computers connected to it too.

I know on my old 11S4 v1 acting as a switch and connected to the
WatchGuard, the Linksys is configured to be a Router and not a Gateway
through the Linksys Admin screen. Have you done that?

>
> I have since added the LAN side address to the MAC filter list but
> wanted to know why this began happening.
>

Maybe, D-link and Linksys don't play well together.

Duane  

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Thank you for the ethereal tip. I setup a capture filter and one
packet arrived every 5 minutes or so. These messages correspond to
what the router was showing on its log.

Will this cause some type of inoperability if I continue to filter?
Or should I enable the MAC addess on the router?


No. Time Source Destination
Protocol Info
1 0.000000 192.168.0.2 224.0.0.1 IGMP
V2 Membership Query

Frame 1 (60 bytes on wire, 60 bytes captured)
Ethernet II, Src: 00:0c:41:6f:25:a6, Dst: 01:00:5e:00:00:01
Internet Protocol, Src Addr: 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2), Dst Addr:
224.0.0.1 (224.0.0.1)
Internet Group Management Protocol