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Orbi RBR 50 DHCP issue after Reboot
This issue is maddening. A simlpe router reboot causes DHCP to stop working. I have the satellite off, and the router just will not allow my iPhone 11 Pro (and most of the other devices on my ...
I have a total of 38 of them. They are HS200, HS 210, HS105. I have KASA Switches, Plugs, 3 Way Switches and Dimmers
What you might do is to either disconnect all these switches from the RBR. Do a full reboot of the RBR. Check it's operation. If it's stable, graduate adding a switch, 1 at a time, and see if the router can add them using this process. You might see about setting an IP address reservation ON the RBR for each.
There's no way I'm going rewire 38 wall-installed switches when i reboot my routher...That cant' be an acceptable possible solution.
I turned off DHCP and looked at a wireshark log. It looks like I'm getting 10-20 DHCP discover requests per second. Is it possible the router is seeing that as an attack an denying them?
Is it also possible the rotuer is not set to be authoratitive so the switches are still trying to get their old IPs back?
incidentally, I upgrade the firmware to 2.7.1.60. No change...
Let me clairify, when I mean disconnect, I mean disconnect them from the wireless SSID, not from the power lines where there installed.
Ya, seems like possible the DHCP service is getting bogged down and can't catch up with all the REQs coming in from all these devices, so which is why I suggested wirelessly disconnecting them from the router and then graduale adding them 1 at a time. And again, try setting up some IP address reservations would help the DHCP server manage these as well.
I think that's exactly what's going on. We're thinking the same thing: DHCP is getting overwhelmed.
This is intersting, I've been turning DHCP off and on and off and on and off and on. Everytime I do that a few more devices get IPs.
It's crazy, but it's working....I'm up to 55 of 77 devices active now...