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Nighthawk M1 IP addresses - allow both dynamic and static
Hi UK-based,
I'll forward this to my internal team and see what they want to do with this idea. :]
Thank you for the suggestion!
- Jason N
Thanks again JasonN! You're doing a great job :smileywink:.
No problem! Thank you for appreciating my help! :]
- Jason N
Just to say, you can always mix and match static and dynamic IP's within a subnet. Just be sure the static you grab (and manually config on your printer) is outside of the Dynamic address range assigned by the routers DHCP service and is not yet claimed by any other of your static devices. Keep in mind, name resolution (DNS/WINS) may or may not work if you do this depending on the setup as some routers only support name resolution for the devices they've leased IP's to. So you when you configure your network printer driver, rather than using the printer name, use the static IP you assigned.
Once you set everything up. Just be sure you can ping your printer first with its static IP (from the command prompt, ping ex 192.168.1.150 (or whatever) IP you configed on your printer. Then reconfig or reinstall your printer driver or windows "printer port" to point to that IP.
I do this routinely with the Actiontec router I have from Verizon FIOS. I have a number of static devices (printers, cameras, Wireless AP's, etc.) outside of the DHCP lease range. It works great.
-Jonathan
JSchnee21: Thanks very much Jonathan for explaining this static IP address allocation in such detail. I must admit I hadn't explored the possibility of setting a static IP address in the printer's interface. I've just found an online manual that explains how to access the printer's web interface and have successfully set it up as you suggested. The M1 no longer lists it as being present on the LAN, I guess because the DNS/WINS name resolution only works for devices the M1 has leased IP's to, as you explained below. However, it's easy to set up the static printer port number in Windows-based devices.
It would still be nice to have the option to set static IP addresses, while simultaneously providing a DHCP range in the M1. This would keep IP address allocation in one place and would also allow all devices on the LAN/WiFi to be seen. So although your kind reply has solved my problem, I'll leave this thread open in the hope that the feature will be added to the M1 in future.