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dutchie027
Aspirant
Nov 20, 2023

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...
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schumaku
Guru - Experienced User
Nov 20, 2023

To my knowledge, this isn't supported, neither on the consumer routers, nor on the later released BR500 and BR200.

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raven_au
Virtuoso
Nov 25, 2023
schumaku wrote:

To my knowledge, this isn't supported, neither on the consumer routers, nor on the later released BR500 and BR200.

I know for a fact that TP-link XE75 and BE85 (there may be more models, the XE75 did not work very well for me) use a subnet mask of 22 bits and the DHCP server works fine with my 100 or so devices which is more than I can say for the Orbi.