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Disable DHCP on XWN5001 power line wifi?
Hello, is it possible to disable DHCP on the HWN5001 router? I want to set this up as a simple access point and have the primary router handle IP addresses. I have heard that using the same SSID and ...
Hi mattran,
The device is not a DHCP server. The router will handle assigning of IP address to every devices connected to the powerline.
JamesGL
Community Team
JamesGL wrote:Hi mattran,
The device is not a DHCP server. The router will handled assigning of IP address to every devices connected to the powerline.
JamesGL
Community Team
The XWN5001, if that is what we are talking about, is not a router either.
There should be no problem using the same SSID and password. I have done that, although it doesn't achieve much.
Take a pinch of salt with whatever you "have heard" until you have tried it yourself and come up against problems. As you already know something about the issues that people talk about, you should find it relatively painless to troubleshoot things if they go wrong.
Hi michaelkenward,
I informed the user that the XWN5001 is not a DHCP server and will not assign any IP address specially if the XWN5001 is connected to a router. The router will be the one handling DHCP to the devices connected the network.
JamesGL
Community Team
Thanks for the info. So, even if I used a different SSID on the Wifi on the powerline plug (which is what I have been doing now, after having tried the same SSID and feeling like there were conflicts between it and the main router in certain parts of the house), my devices would still get an IP address from the main router? For some reason I thought that owning the SSID also meant doling those out, but maybe not.
I will try setting back to the same SSID and see what kind of behavior I see in those parts of the house.
Thanks.
