i had thought that too, but the tech didnt connect wirelessly until after
it was up and running and his mac showed up. they even came back after
rebooting the radio


On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:

>   I have seen Belkin routers do that while booting, are you sure the
> rogue MAC addresses don’t time age of the radio bridging table or go away
> if you reboot the radio?
>
>  *From:* That One Guy <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Monday, February 16, 2015 8:10 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Belkin F6D4230-4 bridging all wireless MACs
>
>  We did check that, its not. Other than the MACs showing up in the wrong
> place, it works fine, Id never seen that before on a functioning device. Is
> there some magic new protocol out there that would need a MAC to show up
> there? I would assume the router WAN can see it to, and Id guess that would
> cause a little confusion for the device, but its not. Its quite possible
> that Belkin has resorted to sorcery.
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Some Belkin routers do have a bridge mode.  Check to see if it is set
>> for bridging or routing.  Likewise, when Apple routers see a private IP on
>> the WAN interface, will by default go into bridging mode.  Most other
>> routers that I know of just do routing.
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>>
>> On 2/16/2015 1:39 PM, That One Guy wrote:
>>
>> Is there any good reason this customer router would be bridging the
>> internal device MACs? Theyre showing up on the bridging table in the canopy
>> radio, but as best I can tell theyre getting their DHCP address from the
>> router and not actually causing a problem. Is this some sort of witchcraft
>> on Belkins part?
>>
>> --
>>  All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that
>> the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you
>> can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not
>> use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>  All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the
> parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you
> can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not
> use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
>



-- 
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the
parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you
can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not
use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925

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