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daievans
Aug 04, 2018Aspirant
GS724TP and a Hawkeye C7800 - more questions
I currently have these two devices functioning, with the Hawkeye being DHCP enabled and the DHCP disabled on the switch.
As i find the Genie software to be erratic, can i set up these two so that t...
JohnC_V
Aug 08, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi daievans,
Welcome to our community! :)
The DHCP functionality of the GS724TP is just a client and not a server. It cannot hand out IP address as this is only a L2 switch. But definitely, it will not affect the C7800 wireless capabilities even if you set the switch to DHCP client. Once you enabled DHCP on your switch, it will just automatically request an IP from your C7800 modem router. Do you mean Nighthawk C7800?
Regards,
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