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Attached Devices Sorted by IP Number
I have a good number of devices on my home network. I manage then with static DHCP reservations and I wanted to be able to get an Attached Device display in the web ui sorted by IP number. The at...
This is an interesting procedure. I have done that in the past, carefully assigning reservations in IP order, but my experience was that "Attached Devices" did not appear in "reservation order", but in some random sequence. I think the whole point of this latest web page revision is that the user can choose on the spur of the moment, "Show me these in MAC order." This is what Nighthawk routers have done forever.
Yeah, but it's a PITA to do manually from the GUI. You have to delete everything, and then re-add them all in the proper order. If you skip one, or get a new device later, you have to repeat the process. It's much simpler to just extract the data, order it how you want, and then upload it again, and now it's in your preferred order. This makes it super easy to fix on the backend, and to reapply if it ever gets assorted. Plus, you're not running any code on the router, so there's little risk of cauing any problems this way. Plus, it's useful for more than just sorting by IP address. And it works across firmware updates.
Alternate ideas are always interesting to consider.
Just to clarify, the sort is not done on the router. Your browser makes a request for current device information table. That is a low priority request but still runs quickly. Once that info is returned to the browser, the sort and prep are done on your local machine.
