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How do you do DHCP reservation on a WN203?
I have just started configuring my new WN203 to replace the wireless part of an older Bell ConnectionHub. I've gotten past the initial stuff and assigned a DHCP address range for the new WN203 pool, but I can't see how to associate a specific address with a specifc wireless device.
In case this isn't clear, let me offer an example. When a wireless camera is assigned an address from the AP, let's say its 192.168.2.220, I need it to always get that in future so I can map that address externally. In the ConnectionHub this is straight forward, there are two things to do. Assign 220 to the MAC address, and then put a new entry in a port forwarding table to say what external address corresponds. I'm thinking that the AP has a reservation capability I haven't found, but the port forwarding needs to occur at the router level.
I wasn't sure how this would work so I tried a couple of things and this is what I found worked.
I let the WN203 be a DHCP client from the upstream ConnectionHub and it was assigned an IP address in the pool, which I subsequently coded as a DHCP reservation. I turned of the DHCP function on the WN203.
When I used the WN203's network, my devices were assigned the same IP addresses by the ConnectionHub as it had used when it's wireless function was operating. I was then able to use the same DHCP reservations as before which turned out to simplify the whole process.
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Hello jpullam,
There is no IP address reservation option on the WN203. You'll have to do the IP reservation on your router since it is also your DHCP server.
Thanks,
How does that work???? I thought that the Access Point ran DHCP and did the IP assignment for the devices it was connected to.
If I turn the 203's DHCP off, so the devices obtain their addresses from the router's DHCP? Are there some settings I need to be aware of?
I'm thinking that my plan of having wireless cameras connecting to the WN203 and addressable outside the LAN isn't going to work. Did I waste my money on this AP?I wasn't sure how this would work so I tried a couple of things and this is what I found worked.
I let the WN203 be a DHCP client from the upstream ConnectionHub and it was assigned an IP address in the pool, which I subsequently coded as a DHCP reservation. I turned of the DHCP function on the WN203.
When I used the WN203's network, my devices were assigned the same IP addresses by the ConnectionHub as it had used when it's wireless function was operating. I was then able to use the same DHCP reservations as before which turned out to simplify the whole process.
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