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MAC addesses not visible behind wiredless brisge.

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I have a XBox 360, Sony S-1100 Bluray player and a WDTV Live Plus all of which only offer wired Ethernet that I wanted to connect to my wired gigabit Ethernet network. But my network wiring doesn't run to the room that the XBox 360, etc are in. So I bought a Engenius ERB300H wireless N bridge in order to connect them to the network. I'm using a DLink DIR-655 router setup as an access point connected to my wired gigabit Ethernet network. I'm running the Mezzmo DLNA media server on one of the PC attached to the wired network.

In order to function properly Mezzmo needs to see the MAC address of the DLNA clients. It can see all the MAC addresses of everything attached to the wired network. But it can't see the MAC addresses of anything connected to the wireless bridge. Instead it can only see the MAC address of the EnGenius ERB300h bridge itself. I sent email to Engenius and they stated the following: "The ERB300H bypasses its own Mac Address and shows the Mac Addresses of the connected devices. It is enable by default and there is no way to disable it." So that seems to rule out problems with the bridge. I've also tried a DIR-601 flashed with DD-WRT setup as an access point and still can't see the MAC addresses of devices connected to the bridge. Anyone know what's wrong?
 
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Does the Engenius device have a WDS option or client bridge?

Edit: Did some quick research, yoy may have it set in repeater mode. If so, try changing it to client bridge.
 
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Almost sounds like it's using selective proxy arp instead of being a true bridge. Ran into similar issue with WRT54G/GS with certain 3rd party firmware. The firmware that worked correctly was OpenWRT Backfire brcm-2.4 v10.3.1. Something you can try since a used WRT54G/GS (preferably GS for more flash and DRAM) goes for about $20-30 but make sure you get hardware revision 3.x or lower since v4 and higher have castrated flash and DRAM.

http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1/brcm-2.4/
 
OP: are you certain the mac address you are referring to is from the wireless bridge and not from the wireless router you have setup as a wireless access point?
 
You mention a device connected to the Engenius ERB300H as the bridge, a DLink DIR-655 as the Access Point connected to a switch where your devices are. Is there a separate router to the outside world?

It could be a simple setup issue as it sounds like you might be using the Dlink is a router, so your Engenius is bridging this inside network and therefore segmenting the devices on the switch.

Is the Dlink setup correctly as an access point?

Can you ping devices on either side of the network?

What are the IP address on both sides?
 
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