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RAX40 Router unable to assign a reserved IP to some devices (MACs)
Hello, My router normally assigned IP dynamically via its dhcp server. But, in order to keep track of my devices more consistently, I decided to assign specific IP addresses to specific devices (MAC...
Salt that sequence away, "once I rebooted the router a second time..." you will use that again in the future.
You had me shaking my head when you started off a sentence with "The first hundred devices..."
It is a good idea to keep a spreadsheet with your device names, IP addresses, and MAC addresses.
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At any one time, how many devices do your have connected to or attempting to connect to your RAX40?
Normally, there are between 10 to 14 devices in my network (LAN and WLAN) at any given time. But most of them are dormant or inactive (like cell phones, tablets, stream device in standby, etc)
In the past (months) whenever I would ping scan my network between 10 to 14 devices would show up (hosts up). For some unknown reason, today when I did a ping sweep/scan of the network only 3 hosts were up (it should be between 10 to 14). Concomitantly, whenever I check on the router web interface for the currently attached devices, it shows about 11 devices -- but in my experience the list of attached devices shown by the router is not always up to date, even if I refresh it every so often. Anyhow, there should not be such a huge discrepancy (3 to 11). Typically there would be no difference or a difference of one or two, for example: 13 nodes listed as attached by the router and 11 nodes listed as up in a ping sweep.