Hi

I'll be glad if you will explain a little bit about how wireless repeaters work and operate. I had a strange case: I connected an AP and a wireless repeater and everything was just fine. i've plugged my PC into the LAN switch port of the AP and opened wireshark.

In another PC I tried to connect to the repeater (I used different SSIDs for AP and repeater) via the wireless.

what I've seen in the sniffer shocked me. the DHCP discovery message came from source MAC that differs from my PC and from the repeater itself! It was like the repeater processed the frames and changed the source and dst MACs just like a router does!

I thought it's just the case with this specific vendor and I took another AP and another repeater from different vendors and it was stranger.

the MAC of the the repeater was xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-50 and the MAC that I saw in the sniffer was xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-51

can you please explain this weird behavior?

by the way, i used tp-link and edimax.