I am using MR 86 APs as gateway and repeater. I have Allen-Bradley electric meters connected to the ethernet port of the repeater so we can remotely gather electrical usage in our factory. they have web servers built in. Sometimes they respond to pings fine. sometimes they don't. sometimes after a couple ping timeouts, they start responding fine. Usually they respond to HTTP requests even when they are slow to start responding to pings, and when the web session is running, pings are always fine. I have several of these GW/Repeater pairs in our plant. some seem to work fine. some seem intermittent. one doesn't let me ping across to the meters at all. I can see the IP addresses of the client devices in the list of clients. the repeater AP can ping the device(s) attached locally to it, but I can't ping it from the GW AP or anything else on the network. some repeaters have a small industrial switch with 2 or 3 electrical meters. I just upgraded the firmware to MR 27.5.1 last night and still see problems today. All the devices are on the same subnet with the APs in one site on the Meraki dashboard. wireless clients work fine from the repeater APs, although they are on a different SSID than the meters. I know this is a very specific problem, but any troubleshooting tips would be appreciated. It seems to stem from the network traffic being initiated form the network, and not from the devices on the wired port of the repeater AP
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