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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, ...
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.
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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