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DHCP address reservation not working
Here's another quibble I have with my present setup (scenario #1 here): DHCP address reservation doesn't seem to be working! All clients connected to the EX6200 acquire new random IPs despite the fact that the router (R7000) was instructed to reserve IPs based on clients' MACs. What am I doing wrong? Anybody else noticed that? Because of that, I frequently get IP conflicts on the network...
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- Hi,
Make sure you applied the settings and reboot. - I think I finally figured out what happens: the EX6200 extender assigns so-called "virtual MAC addresses" to its clients, and those are the MACs that the router (R7000) sees. Interesting, and, at the same time, annoying. Does anyone know how to stop this "virtual MAC address" phenomenon from happening?
- I do not think virtual MAC can be removed as this is used for the 5Ghz MAC address.
Virtual Mac or 5Ghz MAC computation is depending on the model #.
Please see details on this link :
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24806/~/how-can-i-retrieve-the-virtual-mac-address-from-the-wifi-range-extender-to
