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Disable auto change IP address
I've seen similar posts about a way to disable the auto change IP address before. They've been brushed off. The 'answers' and 'solutions' are wrong. There is an issue with the product. Every month wh...
Something to setup while you start some dialog with NG, setup one of your other routers, just disable wifi on this router. Connect the Orbi in configured for AP mode to the prior router and run this configuration.
garrettg84 wrote:
None of my prior routers had issues with this behavior which has been the same for the past 4 years I've lived in the are and had the same service provider. They were all running DD-WRT or similar distributions of linux. Unfortunately none of them have appropriately simple meshing capabilities (at least not at the time of my purchase) or control over multiple 802.11AC radios I could create my own mesh with. I've been dealing with these mixups for almost a year with one reset per month while getting a new DHCP address with the Orbi.
It will be interesting to get the follwing information from Orbi about the internet & LAN IP settings. Please enable telnet in the router's debug page, telnet to the router and print the following parameters (please mask the public IP adresses before pasting them here):
> config get wan_proto
> config get wan_dhcp_ipaddr
> config get wan_dhcp_netmask
> config get wan_dhcp_oldip
> config get wan_dhcp_gateway
> config get wan_dhcp_server
> config get wan_netmask
> config get lan_proto
> config get lan_ipaddr
> config get lan_netmask
> config get old_lan_ipaddr
> config get lan_ip_dynam
> config get lan_dhcp
root@RBR50:~# config get wan_proto
dhcp
root@RBR50:~# config get wan_dhcp_ipaddr
45.37.xx.xx
root@RBR50:~# config get wan_dhcp_netmask
255.255.224.0
root@RBR50:~# config get wan_dhcp_oldip
45.37.xx.xx
root@RBR50:~# config get wan_dhcp_gateway
45.37.64.1
root@RBR50:~# config get wan_dhcp_server
142.254.207.89
root@RBR50:~# config get wan_netmask
0.0.0.0root@RBR50:~# config get lan_proto
dhcp
root@RBR50:~# config get lan_ipaddr
10.99.99.1
root@RBR50:~# config get lan_netmask
255.255.255.0
root@RBR50:~# config get old_lan_ipaddr
192.168.1.1
root@RBR50:~# config get lan_ip_dynam
0
root@RBR50:~# config get lan_dhcp
1ekhalil - any idea which service runs to detect the IP conflict or which service runs to change the IPs during a conflict? I'd be happy to kill those services.
ekhalil wrote:
It will be interesting to get the follwing information from Orbi about the internet & LAN IP settings. Please enable telnet in the router's debug page, telnet to the router and print the following parameters (please mask the public IP adresses before pasting them here):
> config get wan_proto
> config get wan_dhcp_ipaddr
> config get wan_dhcp_netmask
> config get wan_dhcp_oldip
> config get wan_dhcp_gateway
> config get wan_dhcp_server
> config get wan_netmask
> config get lan_proto
> config get lan_ipaddr
> config get lan_netmask
> config get old_lan_ipaddr
> config get lan_ip_dynam
> config get lan_dhcp
garrettg84 wrote:
...........
root@RBR50:~# config get lan_ipaddr
10.99.99.1
root@RBR50:~# config get lan_netmask
255.255.255.0...........
If Orbi is sensing IP address conflict when it sees an 192.168.100.x address then it could be that it's only looking at the netmask and not on the IP address, just a theory! I've seen this reported in other dd-wrt implementations.
I would like to try fooling Orbi to think it has a netmask of 255.255.0.0. and see if it will still see an IP address conflict when the address changes to 192.168.100.x/24, what do you think?
If you want to try this then do the following telnet commands (you can't choose such a netmask in the web GUI):
root@RBR50:~# config set lan_netmask=255.255.0.0
root@RBR50:~# config commit
root@RBR50:~# reboot