# Already local connected devices try to reconnect via WAN

**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/already-local-connected-devices-try-to-reconnect-via-wan/21562
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 31, 2024, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/already-local-connected-devices-try-to-reconnect-via-wan/21562 "2024-01-31T08:46:40Z")
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### Author: ![kisenberg](https://forum.syncthing.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@kisenberg](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/kisenberg)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/already-local-connected-devices-try-to-reconnect-via-wan/21562/1 "2024-01-31T08:46:40Z")

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Hi,

there are several syncthing-clients on my LAN connected together with their LAN-IP. All are behind a NAT-router. But one client repeats the following in its log:

 ![Screenshot 2024-01-31 092732](https://forum-uploads.syncthingcdn.net/original/2X/9/9afb8af70f8d724198a5c89ac4c8f2df893c552a.png)

It seems, that already local connected clients tries to connect the one client by its public IP. How is that possible? Why does an already connected client tries to connect again?

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### Author: ![calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/user_avatar/forum.syncthing.net/calmh/32/15311_2.png) [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/already-local-connected-devices-try-to-reconnect-via-wan/21562/2 "2024-01-31T09:18:38Z")

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Generally speaking, because it thinks there would be an advantage to doing so, but it’s impossible to tell why precisely without the information you blanked out. (Since these are all decisions about whether the IP is local or not etc)

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### Author: ![kisenberg](https://forum.syncthing.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@kisenberg](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/kisenberg)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/already-local-connected-devices-try-to-reconnect-via-wan/21562/3 "2024-01-31T23:00:20Z")

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The first part of information blanked is just the rest of Client-Ids and the second part is my public IP-address.

The general question is, why does a client try to connect another client, while both are connected?

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### Author: ![bt90](https://forum.syncthing.net/user_avatar/forum.syncthing.net/bt90/32/18565_2.png) [@bt90](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/bt90)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2024, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/already-local-connected-devices-try-to-reconnect-via-wan/21562/4 "2024-02-01T06:27:16Z")

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Can we have web UI screenshots from both devices?

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### Author: ![system](https://forum-uploads.syncthingcdn.net/original/2X/0/0b50e0a202b22ae6a67190759e8c868805b8ed9f.png) [@system](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2024, 6:28am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/already-local-connected-devices-try-to-reconnect-via-wan/21562/5 "2024-03-02T06:28:05Z")

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