Problems with WN2000RPT Range Extender

[jasonleschnik]

Hi all!

Just bought a WN2000RPT range extender and i have it all setup. I'm having a strange problem where every couple of hours randomly my hosts on the other LAN segment seem to not be able to ping across to my Netgear WN2000RPT connected hosts.

Now this problem first started when i was unable to get an IP Address on one of my machines that ran flawlessly only acouple of hours previously on the Netgear WN2000RPT side. So being curious i troubleshooted the PC until i could not come up with any conclusion why this was not working.

I decided to crack out Wireshark and i was tailing my dhcpd logs and i was getting a DHCP request from the machine on the WN2000RPT side and the DHCP server *was* sending back a lease but it was never getting to the WN2000RPT connected client/(s). I was also unable to ping from the other LAN segment back to these clients.

I rebooted the box and 15 seconds later it was happy to get a DHCP request and all was happy and pinged and connected fine. So i thought it maybe the box - I got it replaced from the store i bought it - Set it up and again had the same problem.

The time between failures varies. Here is some info about my hardware

Hardware Version WN2000RPT
Firmware Version V1.0.0.2
GUI Language Version V1.0.0.6

I have been able to setup the client with a static ip address and it seems to connect fine, although that is the case i still cannot ping it from the other side of the network. This leads me to believe that there is a problem with the software/hardware in the WN2000RPT.

Is anyone able to give me any ideas on this?

Thanks.