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Rbk50 system duplicate ips
I have a rbk50 with 2 ethernet backhauled satellites. About once a month a device cannot connect to the internet such as a firestick or phone. After doing an ip scan of the network and comparing to t...
Is one of the devices listed in the LAN Setup table and the other not?
Seem to be both wifi. I have ip reservations also but that range is not in the dhcp scope.
Yes, the typical practice is to set aside a range of IP addresses to use for certain devices (i.e. "reserve" or "assign" to these devices based on MAC address) and set the DHCP range of IP addresses so that there is no overlap.
These two devices, then, are not in the LAN Setup table for assigned IP address, but are both somehow trying to use an IP address from the DHCP range, correct?
They are not any of the reserved ip's . The are out of the dhcp allocation and can be different devices.
I do run the parental controls also.