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LAN Mac Address Reservation with Ex6200
Hi All,
Hoping someone can assist me with something im trying to do. On the my DGND4000 Router i have a MAC Address Reservation for a machine in my lounge that is CAT6 cabled to an EX6200 Rang Extender.
On the DGND4000 i see 192.168.0.13 as the DHCP assinged address to my machine even though i have a MAC Address reservation to dish out 192.168.0.5
How does the EX6200 indentify my machines MAC address to the router as i see a physical and virtual address in the configuration web gui and adding any of these 2 address`s makes no difference to the DHCP assignment.
I`ve rebooted the router (DGND4000) and the machine itself and neither are getting the reserved address. I`ve confirmed and triple confirmed the MAC address and its certainly correct. The address reservation worked fine before i installed the EX6200 last night as i have recently moved house and didnt see the need to re-cable the lounge room to the router in the study since im not pushing gigabit traffic to the media center.
Any ideas?
See screenshots at this link https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=FE4EBCE3530A4FB9!187246&authkey=!AB_31xfnE70Lp6g&ithint=folder%2cjpg
Regards
Danny
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The extender uses the Virtual MAC. So the base station needs to know about the virtual mac address, but i suspect there will be a conflict assigning the same IP to different MACs.
Hi Netwrks,
I added both the Physical MAC Address and the Virtual MAC from the extender to the Address Reservation and still got a random DHCP Address. I think the Router and the Extender with the Media-Center connected via LAN to the extender doesnt allow the DGND4000 to assign the reserved address.
I`ve found a way around with reserving a fake MAC address for the IP Address i want and then setting the NIC on the media center to static.
Regards
