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RBKE963 - Satellite IP Address Assignments
I've turned off the DHCP service on the Orbi router in favor of using a Pi-Hole; it's directly connected to the router via Ethernet. I've created static leases on the Pi-Hole for the MAC addresses an...
Yes, I always set IP Address Reservations for any RBS I have on the RBR. Helps to know there IP addresses when needed that don't change.
While it's nice to know that the IP addresses won't change, it's especially convenient that with the Pi-Hole, the hostnames are also resolved. If one is supplied in the DHCPREQUEST it's automatically added to local DNS, but if you create a lease you can also change the name associated with the address and it will use that instead.
Unfortunately, the Orbi satellites don't provide a host name in the DHCP request (on the Pi-Hole they show up as "unknown" in the DHCP page), but when creating their reservations I was able to add names to them. So my satellites are now known as livingroomorbi.lan and mediaroomorbi.lan.
There you go.