I have a brand new Asus ZenWiFI XT8 mesh system set up and working ... for the most part!
My main PC has 2 interfaces: Ethernet & WiFi. WiFi is connected and gets an IP from the router. The Ethernet connection, however does not get an IP!
When I run WireShark (while running ipconfig /renew Ethernet
), I see plenty of unanswered DHCP Discover messages. If I run ipconfig /renew Wi-Fi
though I see the DHCP Offer and ACK messages almost immediately and boom! WiFi is connected.
I have:
- Changed Ethernet Cables
- Tested my Ethernet Cable with a cable tester
- Bypassed my switch and gone directly to the router
- Rebooted into Linux and tried renewing IP
- Tested with a Raspberry Pi and tried getting an IP
- Re-installed Windows
- Tried to set a static IP (in Network configuration)
- Tried to set a DHCP reservation for my NIC
What's interesting is the adding my NIC's MAC address to the DHCP reservation list has no effect. It does NOT get added to the list. Now this package comes with a pair of routers. None of the devices plugged in to the wired ports shows up in the client lists.
I'm all out of ideas ... WTH is going on? Obviously the DHCP server is working. There are 17 clients connected wirelessly without any issues (including this PC), but those same devices cannot connect through the wired connection (including this PC).