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LukasT
Contributor I
November 27, 2020

Wired setup refusing to connect

  • November 27, 2020
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Hi,

 

I have a problem switching my Sonos setup to wired connection (due to dropouts in wireless mode).

 

I am trying to connect Sonos speakers to the same DHCP service when wired as when they are wireless (wired and wireless connection share the same VLAN, as my phone on which Im trying to set this up does - since it works in wireless, the problem shouldn’t be there). Ethernet cable is in tact (i even see there is some traffic on the port when I look into the switch web interface), however when I try to disable wifi in Sonos app/when I turn off the SSID to which they connect, do not get a connection (can’t even ping the device). When i look at IP:1400/status/ifconfig after it gets back online to wireless, it shows under eth0 that majority of RX packets were dropped… This is weird, since it goes through exactly the same switches, as my AP and it enters the router through the same trunk - I don’t see any way how when it goes through AP it would get accepted, but when it goes through cable it does not. I have disabled any and all firewalls on the VLAN and I tripple checked there is a untagged port to the correct VLAN as well as the same pVID on the port where I connect cable to Sonos… The only information I get from IGMP snooping is an IP on the given VLAN - 239.255.255.250.

 

I had the setup working in previous home where I ultimately put the Sonos on a separate VLAN, which was a hair-pulling event by itself, however this time Im not even able to make it switch from wireless to wired… Anyone has any idea what to try next please?

 

P.S. I have the same issue on 2 separate Ones and a Beam.

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ratty
ratty
November 27, 2020

Netgear unmanaged switches (such as GS2xx) should work fine, apart from anything mentioned in the linked article.

LukasTAuthor
Contributor I
November 27, 2020

Thanks! just to make sure, are you saying that a setup with |Sonos speaker|----eth_cable---|Netgear GS205|---eth_cable---|TL Switch|---eth_cable---|router| should work ok, or would the whole connection require to be made without the TL switch anywhere in between?

And since in such case I would be using those switches literally only as “buffer” for the Sonos speakers, I was hoping for something cheaper - is it to be expected that something super basic like D-Link GO-SW-5E will not be able to solve my issue?

ratty
ratty
November 27, 2020

A Netgear GS208 is cheaper than that D-Link switch, at least here. 

Such a dumb switch alone would work fine. I don’t know what if any packet mangling the TL switch does for VLANs so I’m afraid it’s a case of YMMV for the chain you sketched out.  

LukasTAuthor
Contributor I
November 27, 2020

The D-Link is half the price here, thats why I mentioned it. Thank you so much for your time, i will buy it and try it out, maybe I will be in luck and won’t need to purchase a whole set of new switches :)

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