Verifying mesh connection points

I'm running Blue+ in DHCP mode with 1 Linksys Velop base unit supporting wired Ethernet and nearby WiFi devices. There are 2 Linksys Velop satellite units roughly 1 room away and and 3 rooms away from the base (satellites are connected to base wirelessly and have strong backhaul signals. I need to know which Velop unit some of my IoT devices are connecting to. Since the FWB+ is doing the routing and monitoring is turned off on the satellites, the Velop admin software only shows the satellites connected to the base. All other devices show as offline. The FWA app shows all the connected devices but doesn't identify where they connect to the mesh. I can't turn off the FWB+ to let the Velop software identify the connections like it would if it was doing DHCP itself. Is there any way to figure out which Velop unit the devices are connecting to?

beachdog

October 25, 2022 18:34

I figured out how to do this. When turning monitoring off for a device, the IP address will leave the FW overlay range and get an IP in the router base range. It will take a while and possibly a network reset for the device not getting monitored, but once the router acknowledges the device in the base range, it will show which mesh node it has connected to. This is very kludgey but it did allow me to verify where a device was connecting. This worked for Linksys Velop, not sure how other routers will behave.

November 22, 2022 15:39

The final solution was to return the Linksys Velop and go back to Netgear Orbi. The Orbi web page and app both work normally with the Firewalla in DHCP mode. I would recommend NOT using Velop with Firewalla because it becomes impossible to easily monitor and control the network.

Verifying mesh connection points

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