Default IP connects to off-site SM

Hi, 

As CWB said, 169.254.1.1 is a backdoor adress that is always available via the Ethernet port of the radio, whether the radio is set to DHCP or Static IP. However, that IP addres does not traverse the wireless interface and you should not be hitting a second SM connected to the same AP. Worst case, you could be hitting the Ethernet interface of another ePMP radio connected to the same switch as the orginal AP. That said, in some older releases there was a bug that allowed access of this IP over the wireless interface. But this is not an issue in newer releases. What release are the radios running?

Two possible solutions here:

  1. Disable or change 169.254.1.1 if this issue is causing you inconvenience. Instructions are here.
  2. Enable SM isolation so traffic from one SM is isolated from another SM connected to the same AP. Generally this is good practice. Information about SM isolation is here.

Sriram

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