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RAX80 Can't Save Settings Changes
My Nighthawk RAX80 has a strange problem. It was working fine before, but now I am unable to save any of the changes I make in the router settings. The settings page works fine (no errors), but any...
This is indeed a bug as I have a similar issue with RAX80 settings changes not being retained after restarting the router. This symptom appears to have started around firmware v1.0.1.62_x.x.xx and it's still not fixed as of v1.0.1.64_1.0.27.
To work around a Netgear DHCP Reservation limit issue, I recently decided to move the DHCP services for my LAN off the RAX80 and to a different server, I had several DHCP Reservations configured on the RAX80 so I deleted all those before unchecking "Use Router as a DHCP Server" to disable DHCP on the router. I saved the settings by hitting the "Apply" button and waited for the progress bar to finish. After a subsequent (graceful) router reboot, I discovered that the DHCP server was re-enabled on the router and all the reservations that I previously deleted were back again.
Doesn't seem to matter what order I make changes or how many I make at a time, all DHCP-related settings changes are now reverted back after every router reboot. Unfortunately, it seems I'll have to reapply all new settings changes after every reboot until Netgear releases a bug fix in some future firmware release.