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Reserved IP issue RBR850
Anyone else have DHCP reservation issues? I've had conflicts with devices that will not let go of IPs, even though the default 24 hours has passed, and when I've reserved something else there, it wil...
I saw your post on DHCP reservation table max-size. I had run into this on earleir rev's of the firmware and it was topping out at 113 before new entries started corrupting older ones. I am currently running V4.6.7.5_2.1.7 on the 850s as that is the last stable version of firmware i have tried. The DHCP reservation table maxes out at 227 entries now and if you add one more, the whole list vanishes (i.e. make and use a backup before it's too late). Interestingly that's twice the size of the last limit i encountered a year ago, so i guess the earlier fix was to double the memory table size.
This is so cool. Thanks for conducting what must have been a tedious experiment. I would have (naively) believed that Netgear would track the number of entries and reject adding another when the maximum was reached.
Another user conducted a similar project and discovered that there was (is?) a programming error in one of the Orbi routines which uses a short integer to store the length of the parameter settings and thus when the actual file size got too large, the size reverted to a very small value and thus corrupted the entire parameter file.
When adding entries to the LAN reservation table, how long were the entries for Device Name? (perhaps it is not the number of table entries, but the size of the text parameters which causes the problem?)
