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Add reservation error
Trying to add a reservation for my setup box. I get the following error when clicking apply.. The reservation itself I selected from the selection list. So it has to be correct. Any ...
Glad you got it working. Please mark your thread as solved so others will know. Be sure to save off a back up configuration to file for safe keeping. Saves time if a reset is needed.
https://kb.netgear.com/000062080/How-do-I-back-up-the-configuration-settings-on-my-Orbi-WiFi-System
Enjoy. 📡
Do you have this device on the Guest Network? You can't reserve IPs for the Guest Network. Can only reserve IPs on the main LAN under 192.168.1.x
Thanks for the reply. The device is not on guest. My whole network is set to 192.168.2.x That is how I set it up. The strange thing is that the reservation is made and it is added to the list.
I know you may not have GN enabled however by default the GN uses 192.168.2.1 as it's default IP address subnet from the main default subnet of 192.168.1.1. Possible that even though GN is not enabled, the system sees this and maybe causing the error seen in the browser. I'd not recommend using .2.x as your main subnet address for the main LAN. Should you later on enable GN, possible this would cause problems.
SkywalkerPD wrote:
Thanks for the reply. The device is not on guest. My whole network is set to 192.168.2.x That is how I set it up. The strange thing is that the reservation is made and it is added to the list.
While unusual, configuring the primary network to 192.168.2.x would seem to be legitimate. Would it be convenient to perform a couple of experiments?
- Temporarily enable the Guest network, connect some device to it, and observe the IP address assigned to this device. (Then disable the Guest network again.)
- Is there a device on the network that can report the network parameters assigned to it by the router? On Windows, for example, the command ipconfig /all will display these items:
- IP address
- Subnet mask
- Gateway IP address
- DNS IP address
Normally, the Gateway IP address and DNS IP address are the Orbi router LAN IP address.
The term setup box seems a bit ambiguous. Can you please explain what this device is?
I did the experiment on an RBR750 with firmware v7.2.6.31
This router is connected to a primary Orbi system, so by default when it detects that IP assigned to the WAN port is in the 192.168.1.x subnet, it creates a LAN IP subnet of 10.0.0.x (Netgear engineers could have chosen any of the remaining 192.168.??? subnets, but they chose 10.0.0.x. No idea why.)
When a device is connected to the Guest WiFi network on this router, it is assigned an IP in the 10.0.1.x subnet. This is a similar behavior to when the primary default is 192.168.1.x and the Guest subnet is 192.168.2.x (i.e. "one bigger")
Then changed the primary LAN to 192.168.2.x and connected devices to the Guest WiFi network. Both were assigned IP's in the 10.0.1.x subnet. What appears to be the situation is that when the firmware detects that the primary subnet is anywhere in 192.168, it creates Guest as a 10.0.x.x subnet.
Thus, creating the primary IP subnet as 192.168.2.x will simply cause the Guest WiFi subnet to be switched from 192.168 to 10.0 Thus, there would appear to be no conflict between primary and Guest networks.
None of this explains what would cause assigning a device a reserved address in 192.168.2.x would display an error message.
Perhaps more information about the reservation would be helpful. Was the assignment within the DHCP 'pool' or outside the range of the pool?
