Cambium Client List not being forwarded to Router?

Products Enterprise Wi-Fi Networks
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3 ePMPs and cnPilots connected to a Meraki Z3 in a Y configuration … I can view a Client List from the Cambium Dashboard but this appears to be MIA in the Z3 Dashboard … Z3 wifi is off but also has a DLINK AP which is reporting its clients … is there some setting on the Cambium that may be restricting the Cambium clients from reporting to the Z3? Certain the cnPilots (3) are using the Z3 DHCP so not sure how this could occur if the Z3 doesn’t know what clients are connected.

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@bxdobs
Could you please share information for below queries

  • Which model of AP have you deployed?

  • What is the mode of AP (Bridge Mode or NAT Mode)

Please share tech-support of AP.

Thank you.

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we have
3 cnPilot e500 with version 4.2.31-r7 firmware
3 ePMP Force 180 AP version 4.7.0.1 firmware

Sorry not seeing any param for Bridge vs Nat

There is no DHCP Server or VLAN Pool configured on any of the cnPilots

the Z3 is connected with ppoe to a ePMP which then connects the first cnPilot
the other 2 ePMPs get their signals from the first ePMP (working as wireless ethernet extenders) and each connect to the 2nd and 3rd cnPilots … all cnPilots have both 2.4 and 5 GHz radios enabled

		     Z3
	      	  |
	        ePMP->cnPilot
	   	      |
cnPilot<-ePMP-+-ePMP->cnPilot
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@bxdobs
Thank you for sharing the topology.
Please confirm if wireless clients are getting IP from Z3. If yes, Z3 should update by default, since DHCP lease is from Z3. cnPilot APs does not have any explicit rule to deny updates to Z3.

However, a tech-support will help us.

Thank you.

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Could the following possibly explain what is happening? Being paranoid about deploying cheap IOT devices, as a rule, these devices are never given the Gateway Address, instead, they are always configured with the Gateway Address being the same as their own Static Address … perhaps whatever mechanism is being used to identify these devices (some global poll) is triggering them to send that message to themselves instead of back to the actual Gateway … and as they are using Static Addresses will never request anything from the DHCP server. … this assumes the router exclusively uses some sort of arp like poll to keep track of attached devices rather than keeping track of device traffic by address