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yksi's avatar
yksi
Tutor
Oct 21, 2018

Disconnect on New DHCP Lease Allocation (Ethernet)

So this issue has been going on for literally since I bought this router, 8 months ago. Every single time my router needs to allocate a new DHCP lease, which for some reason is every 24 hours because...
yksi's avatar
yksi
Tutor
Nov 07, 2018

I'll give that a try.

 

I haven't tried reserving IPs - didn't know you could do that; I thought making a static IP was the same thing. I'll do that too.

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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Nov 07, 2018

Setting IP address reservations is done ON the router. Static IP addresses are set ON devices. These need to be out side of the routers default IP address pool however.