well, a bridge, turning them into classic APs. A reasonable person could be forgiven for assuming that the inline "root" eero is only needed when one of the eeros is serving as the gateway, and that bridge mode would be. It would be really helpful to your users if you maybe mention in that article (or even in the app!) that one of the eeros needs to be upstream from any switch with other eeros, because this is not at all intuitive when thinking about what bridge mode normally means. This is what I mean when I say "bridge mode is not what you think it is." Eero is still meshing, even over the ethernet, which can confuse your switches if there's not a root eero able to see all of the traffic between the router and the downstream switches. So I read the eero bridge mode article, moved all of my eeros to the switch, and put the eero network in bridge mode.Īs I eventually discovered after hours of troubleshooting, rebooting, removing and adding eeros, rebooting clients, and eventually by searching this sub, putting all of the eeros at the same level of switch hierarchy causes STAMP weirdness with all sorts of flaky symptoms.Īs has been covered elsewhere on this sub, the eero mesh technology relies on the ability of a root eero to see what's going on to avoid ravaging the switch tables, causing loop-detection issues and so forth, even when all the eeros are wired. (Part of this is needing a way to quickly assign static IPs and host names to my clients, which I can do by maintaining my own nf and /etc/hosts files on the pihole - which gives me local network name resolution and the ability to see friendly host names on the pihole, but I digress.) I decided to use a pi-hole as my DHCP server, and since eero doesn't allow me to turn off DHCP (I would rather use the eero as the router, so this would b a really helpful feature by the way!) I did some quick tests and figured out that my AT&T BGW 320-500 gateway is "good enough" as a router to support what I'm trying to accomplish. I've been chasing ghosts on my network for days after putting my eero network into bridge mode. I hope eero will update the bridge mode article on their site to explain this rather than users having to encounter weird issues and start googling to find the non-obvious answer. Tl dr: When using bridge mode, one eero needs to be inline between your router and any downstream switches that have wired backhaul eeros on them.
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