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Hello Everyone, Thanks for taking the time to read this. I've got a Netgear Orbi Mesh router with one sattelite. Everything was fine until 3 days ago when the cable modem I own was replac...
OK, first off, you don't have to be a **bleep**. You made a short answer, being "no, you can't" into this whole big long thing and have been throwing shade for most of your replies.
Second, I'm asking if this device will do something that many other devices do. Just because you don't like the question, doesn't make it the wrong one.
Third, I intentionally left off the make/model of the modem to minimize the "Have you tried doing this?" posts that I didn't want. As if I hadn't tried any of the things y'all would've said to log into the modem to try. The cable modem given to us from Altice One needs the DHCP on and the WiFi on for the DVR's to work. Period. Turning those functions off is not an option.
Lastly, I've managed to solve the issue by setting up VLANs on the Cisco switch so that the only devices getting an IP from the cable modem are the DVR devices.
You can reply if you like, but I'm done with this post, and most likely the community as well.
Good day.
> And there are no right or wrong questions.
Sure there are. You've demonstrated that.
> What I asked is still something I want to know. Is there a way to
> specify on the Orbi not to hand out IP's other than it's own.
Which part of "No" was unclear?
> No. You can't set it to do anything _else_ (with its own DHCP
> server). Still the wrong question.
Still true. That's _why_ it's the wrong question.
You're asking why the Orbi does something which I believe that it
doesn't do, and how to make it do something which I believe that it
won't do. How many ways are there to say, "DEAD END"? This is how you
get to "Message 11" in such a discussion without making any actual
progress.
> [...] That's typically the problem with most community posts. [...]
_I_ thought that the typical problem was not getting answers to basic
questions requesting useful information. Review. Look for "?".
> [...] and bypasses the actual question.
That frequently happens because "the actual question" does not lead
to an actual solution to the actual problem, and the fellow who
"bypasses the actual question" is attempting to get to an actual
solution to the actual problem. Sadly, that often requires getting some
basic information from someone who's positive that he doesn't need to
provide any. That seldom ends well.
> [...] this is the modem they gave me. [...]
I'll try once again. _WHAT_ is?
> [...] Without it, our DVR services for cable TV stop working. They're
> all pre-configured to this cable modem.
If you can't disable its Internet router functions, then you may not
be able to get what you want. Sadly, with my weak psychic powers, I'm
unable to investigate your (unspecified, not-only-a) "modem", to try to
determine what might be possible to do with it. And with a requirement
description like "I have specific routes for VPN, DDNS, etc.", I'm not
even sure what you really need to have it do.
But feel free to continue your quest to solve your actual problem by
exploring the "DCHP" capabilities of the Orbi (or anything else). How's
that been working for you so far? (And you blame whom for that?)
> There may be others that want to know the answer to this question in
> the future....
Not likely, in my estimation.
OK, first off, you don't have to be a **bleep**. You made a short answer, being "no, you can't" into this whole big long thing and have been throwing shade for most of your replies.
Second, I'm asking if this device will do something that many other devices do. Just because you don't like the question, doesn't make it the wrong one.
Third, I intentionally left off the make/model of the modem to minimize the "Have you tried doing this?" posts that I didn't want. As if I hadn't tried any of the things y'all would've said to log into the modem to try. The cable modem given to us from Altice One needs the DHCP on and the WiFi on for the DVR's to work. Period. Turning those functions off is not an option.
Lastly, I've managed to solve the issue by setting up VLANs on the Cisco switch so that the only devices getting an IP from the cable modem are the DVR devices.
You can reply if you like, but I'm done with this post, and most likely the community as well.
Good day.
> [...] You [...] have been throwing shade [...]
_Who_ has been hiding more information?
> [...] I intentionally left off the make/model of the modem [...]
How helpful was that, exactly?
> [...] setting up VLANs on the Cisco switch [...]
Why didn't _I_ think to suggest that? I can be such a dope.
antinode wrote:> [...] You [...] have been throwing shade [...]
_Who_ has been hiding more information?
Hiding information? It's my network and my information. I share what I do/don't like about my network.
> [...] I intentionally left off the make/model of the modem [...]
How helpful was that, exactly?
VERY. It did, in fact, minimize the questions I didn't need.
[...] setting up VLANs on the Cisco switch [...]
Why didn't _I_ think to suggest that? I can be such a dope.
Because you didn't know I had a Cisco switch that was capable of VLANs. You were just assuming I was some moron that didn't know anything...
> [...] You were just assuming [...]
"assume" and "infer" are spelled differently for a reason.
Yes they are. That's why I used the correct one.