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DHCP - Need to release IP addresses
Why can I not release IP addresses? Even with a reboot it still holds on to old addresses. I created a reservation and when I look in the clients list I see 3 different addresses for the same device....
In the connected devices list there are 2 instances of the garage door, one with an IP of 192.168.1.99 (the reserved IP that I assigned from the Orbi console) and 192.168.1.162 that is an old IP assigned days ago dynamically.
This appears to be the only double IP address, but because I have 6 Sonos devices, 4 Apple TVs, 2 Rokus, 3 TiVos, 4 Ipads, etc. I worry that there could be duplicates down the road that I am not aware of. I have had phantom devices show up once because my ISP was improperly filtering, so I try to keep an eye on my connected device list.
I realize that I could just ignore this, but when every other network device on the market has a way to flush the DHCP cache, I find it odd that Orbi cannot. Even if the answer was power it down and that will release all of the devices, that would be acceptable. But apparently powering down will not fix this because I have powered down the full system more than once and the 192.168.1.162 is still showing up.
Good news and bad news. 192.168.1.162 is actually a real device. It is a Wemo wall light switch. All of my other Wemo switches show up as "Belkin International" as the device model and "Wemo" as the device name.
I had named 192.168.1.162 as "Chamberlian" and "Garage door" and then when I moved the device to a reserved IP, .162 was available and in a reboot it was assigned to the Wemo light switch. Which is a real problem. Apparently names stay with the IP, not the device (or, more specifically) the MAC address.)
I had come from an Amplifi system and those names were tied to MACs, not IPs. I am not sure that this is what the typical user would expect when they name a device.
Glad you figured out that Orbi was not giving out two IPs to one device.
That should have been evident from the MAC addresses in the connected devices list though.