I have 3-4 stations connected to my 2211, but no traffic is being routed between them. All of them can communicate towards the uplink, but not on the local net. The only traffic that is received by other boxes is an ARP who-is reply packet – sent by the box that has just associated. All of these devices can communicate locally on a Linksys AP.

STA 2 00:1C:B3:4E:A5:83 associated WPA2-PSK AES
STA 1 00:1C:B3:B2:29:9F associated WPA2-PSK AES
STA 1 00:30:65:28:DA:4C associated WPA-PSK TKIP

What is the model number on 2211? What mode are you operating the 2211 in – router, bridge,...?

It’s MM2211, and in router mode. The clients have IP, see the net, but no traffic is routed between them locally (except the aforementioned ARP packet). The firmware is latest.

I just connected two of my wireless laptops to MM2211-DZ opeating on build 1675 v3.5. They received 192.168.1.101 and 192.168.1.102 IP addresses respectively from the MetroFlex and they were able to ping each other.

Both these laptops running on XP have firewalls disabled for ping traffic.

Yes, I know what it should do, and how it should work. It’s just that it doesn’t. Anyway these are Mac’s and iPhones.

I get quite intermitent communication: mostly Apple gear and one TiVo. The AppleTV is pretty unreliable on wireless: it tends to be happier on the wired port. I frequently cannot see services reliably via Bonjour. Using ping and ssh works fine.

I’ve been troubleshooting today with a rebooted 2211-DZ and it seems better, but I’ve had times where I’ve pulled out my hair in frustration. I’m close to moving the device to bridged mode and getting a new access point.

I’m speculating a litle that at the moment, it may be the multicast nature of Bonjour that may be at fault. Apple gear relies on this substantially for AppleTV, iTunes, AirTunes etc.

H/W: GD6
S/W: 3.5.0.1675