The system was disconnecting and attempting to move clients too frequently trying to satisfy the load balancing setting.
I have more than thirty connected devices at any given time and three radios. I checked and mine was set to five devices. The UniFi system has a load balancing feature that can be used to control the number of clients connected to each access point. Thinking about this logically jogged my memory. It was intentionally disconnecting my client. Eventually the issue occurred and I was able to see in the trace that the RESET packet was coming from the AP that I was connected to. I had installed Wireshark as part of the troubleshooting process and left a capture running while I used my laptop. Unfortunately, it didn’t directly lead to a resolution. I spent a few hours working through Ubiquiti’s excellent support material. The event logs on the controller and devices recorded the disconnects but didn’t show a reason.
UNIFI CONTROLLER NOT SEEING AP SOFTWARE
No changes coincided with the onset and all the software and firmware were up to date. I couldn’t find a pattern or common denominator to drill in on. My wife’s iPad and kids laptops did the same. My Oculus Quest would disconnect and reconnect mid-game.
So you can imagine my frustration when multiple devices started randomly flapping.
Normally it just does its job and disappears into the background. I’m on my second generation of the equipment and have been very satisfied with it overall. My network is based on Ubiquiti’s Unifi platform.