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ORBI not properly associating static IP
Hello! I've been trying to use the Address Reservation feature under Advanced -> Setup -> LAN Setup. I have a PC that is hardwired (Ethernet, not wireless) to the RBS50 satellite (not the base RB...
I know this is an old thread but I was having the same problem with reserved addresses not getting assigned. I tried the "trick" of changing the DHCP addresses from x.x.x.21 to x.x.x.254 TO x.x.x.21 to x.x.x.100.
Restarted the devices that were not getting the addresses I wanted and it all worked. I had tried restarting the devices prior to changing the auto assigned addresses range and it did not work at that time. Only after changing the range of the auto addresses.
I know enough to know that should not change the addresses I wanted reserved. Nothing was assigned in the >100 range in the first place. All I know is it solved my problem.
CrimpOn isn’t it a good (easier) practice to have a range of addresses that the router will not use/assign? Then, whatever address the user assigns to a device (from that router excluded range) will never create a conflict?
I think Linksys routers always came with such a range and I would pick fixed addresses from it without issues (without having to do anything on the router).
Or are the Orbit routers more intelligent and automatically recognize fixed addresses in devices and leaves them alone?
That's probably a sensible methodology, but I'm not sure that the appliance should be forcing the user to do that, as there might be reasons why the user doesn't want to move a device's IP to another range. Maybe it took them a long time to get some other devices to interact with it, and they don't want to risk another slew of configuration changes they'd need if they changed it's address.
Also, I believe some DHCP daemons do the opposite of what the ORBI does, where manual IP assignments must be within the overall pool of IP's which the daemon is allowed to assign. So, for me, anyway, it's counter-intuitive.