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DHCP with a /23
I switched my orbi subnet mask to 255.255.254.0 in order to gain more usable addresses, however the DHCP settings hard code the first three octets and won't allow me to use more than 253 addresses. A...
Sending DHCP and having a local cache of more than 254 requests isn't really "enterprise" level work. If you VLAN it up and begin tagging networks, maybe, but basic DHCP for any number of addresses isn't really that taxing.
Page 155 of the user manual says this:
This gives the impression that this router is not suitable for your intended use.
If the router is put into access point mode and an external DHCP server is used, it would be interesting to know "what happens" when more than this number of IP addresses are active on the network at the same time using a /23 subnet mask.