Does It Matter Which Port Is Used On AiMesh Node?

[HarryMuscle]

It looks like most if not all official instructions on how to setup an AiMesh node say to use the WAN port on the node router if using ethernet backhaul. I was just curious if this actually matters. Can you use one of the LAN ports, even during setup of the node? Anyone play around with this and have any comments to share?

Thanks,
Harry

 

[L&LD]

You must use the WAN port.

 

[OzarkEdge]

It looks like most if not all official instructions on how to setup an AiMesh node say to use the WAN port on the node router if using ethernet backhaul. I was just curious if this actually matters. Can you use one of the LAN ports, even during setup of the node? Anyone play around with this and have any comments to share?

Thanks,
Harry

You should use the WAN port. If there is a multi-Gig LAN/WAN port that typically defaults to LAN5, you can use it and it should then default to being the WAN port for the AiMesh wired backhaul.

OE

 

[Tech9]

It looks like most if not all official instructions on how to setup an AiMesh node say to use the WAN port

Is you Ethernet cable 2 inches short?