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Kornster's avatar
Kornster
Aspirant
Oct 22, 2015

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

Troubleshooting
wireless

2 Replies

  • netwrks's avatar
    netwrks
    Master
    Oct 23, 2015

    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.

    • Kornster's avatar
      Kornster
      Aspirant
      Oct 23, 2015

      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