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computersteve
Apprentice
Jul 19, 2020

DHCP issues after Orbi in AP Mode RBK50 reboot

netgear Something is wrong with DHCP after a reboot of my main router (UBEE), & the way it interacts with the Orbi system. I have an UBEE modem which also acts as router with DHCP provided through my...
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computersteve
Apprentice
Jul 19, 2020

The problem is it doesn't recieve IPs after the UBEE reboots.. If I run a wireshark it says that its then sending request to 192.168.1.255 meanwhile my gateway (UBEE) is 192.168.1.1.. If I reboot everything it then works and it resumes recieving IP's from 192.168.1.1

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CrimpOn
Guru - Experienced User
Jul 19, 2020
computersteve wrote:

The problem is it doesn't recieve IPs after the UBEE reboots.. If I run a wireshark it says that its then sending request to 192.168.1.255 meanwhile my gateway (UBEE) is 192.168.1.1.. If I reboot everything it then works and it resumes recieving IP's from 192.168.1.1

I have lost track of what "it" is.  Is Wireshark recording packets from the machine that Wireshark is running on?

 

Wikipedia explains DHCP requests as starting with a "broadcast" to IP 255.255.255.255 and then waiting for the first DHCP server to respond.  With the Orbi in AP mode, that should be the UBEE.