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Orbi 6E Router RBRE960 only shows error on Access Control page
Just replaced my RBR50/RBS50 setup with a RBRE960/RBSE960 setup. Things worked pretty well. I did everything step by step over something like 6 hours, bringing my switches and devices online in secti...
Sorry it took so long to respond. FURRYe38 asked me yesterday to take a look at this, but I was caught up in some other stuff and couldn't get to it until this morning.
So, it appears doing your reserved addresses were done correctly. Even updating the device names seemed to be done correctly.
I do not think the number of entries is an issue - I have 29 devices with reserved addresses. The only difference between how I did it and how you did it is I selected and updated them AFTER they were on the network. But, then again, I used the same SSID as my prior router so they all automatically connected when I hooked up the 9xx series Orbi.
The one BIG difference I see - is that when I pull up the Access Control Tab, is that at the top of my Access Control Page - it says "To use access control, please use the Orbi App". I am sure that is in hopes that people will use Armor/SPC for access control. I personally don't use the Access Control but then again, I'm out in the country and pretty insulated/isolated from lots of internet traffic. But I do believe all of the Access Control functionality has been moved over to SPC.
I have seen in the past (not on the 9xx series) where people have updated the Device Name/Location on the attached devices page - and putting in special characters or too many lines of data has corrupted other screens that is trying to display device information. All of this data is stored internally on the router and if something gets out of alignment, other things get out of whack.
You might want to take a look again at your attached devices page - see if there any any special characters or extra long lines of data and modify it and see if that helps.
Since the devices were never before seen to the brand-new router by the time I created the reservation table, that actually worked much better than when I did it on RBR50 2.5 years ago after everything was already on DHCP, and I added them one by one. That was quite miserable. This time, once the devices came online, they already were assigned by the router the reserved IPs and the name I had entered into the reservation table. No problems, no IP conflicts, no reboots/resets etc. And, right afterwards, the Access Control page was showing fine. Sometime afterwards, as I was editing other devices' auto-created type/brand/name data, the page went down.
I certainly hope this can be helped without me wasting another whole day and kicking everyone at home out of the network which usually translates into them leaving home. There are only so many times I can do that... 🙂
TC_in_Montana , can you please please please help? All the info you'll need is in this lengthy thread...
Tuna
Having recently obtained and set up an RBKE9 router and satellites myself, I gave up on trying to set up address reservations using Netgear's horrible UI.
I had a couple of Raspberry Pis sitting idle, so I burned an Ubuntu image to a 32GB SD card, slid it into an RPi 3B+ and installed Pi-Hole (aside: just about any computer/laptop with an ethernet jack built in the last 12 years would also work). I Disabled DHCP on the Orbi, and now the Pi-Hole is both my DHCP server and DNS resolver. Adding reservations is a snap, and I can easily rename them in the Pi-Hole GUI.
Oh, and it's scary to see what sites your equipment attempts to connect to ...
PS. I get that you just spent a grand and a half on what should be the most sophisticated home networking solution on the market. But so far, I'm more pleased than pissed about buying the Orbi. The RANGE is freaking astounding.
I am sorry the address reservations were a problem. With RBR50, 2.5 years ago, I found it hard since for every single device I created a reserved IP for, I found that I needed to restart the router, and either reboot or "ipconfig /clear /all & ipconfig /renew" on the device to force the device getting the new IP from the router. Given that each reboot of the router means a handshake & stabilization period between the satellites, that took eons.
This time, I already had a list that I had copy/pasted into a TXT file from my old RBR50. And my network & switches & devices were all turned off. So, I was able to simply add all 25 reservations before anything came online, and that took me something like 20 minutes. Once everything was brought online, all worked like a charm.
Granted, I only use reserved IPs for switches and other network devices that I want to have direct web admin access to via personalized browser bookmarks. That is not a heavy demanding use. Grouping/pooling IPs, moving them around in chunks, sorting them, inserting another device into the list and shift others around, etc. All such uses would be hard on ORBI.
In general, ORBI web admin needs to "grow up" way more to match the quality of the hardware and the price tag.
Tuna