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Jamie-NH
Apr 21, 2024Aspirant
Schema of a Smart Home: One IP => Multiple MACs
I use an XR700 router with a EX8000 extender. They were expensive and I hope that they would provide my household a few more years of service. I want to use TP-Link Smart Plugs (Kasa brand) becau...
Jamie-NH
Apr 21, 2024Aspirant
I'm not sure how much more "messy" things could get when we already have 2 MAC addresses assigned to the same IP address?
For example, the EX8000 shows:
Now, what would break if the router allowed for a reservation table that had the same two MAC's for this single interface? If NETGEAR cannot share this info between the EX8000 and XR700, then just let me type it in myself and leave the responsibility with me with some words of caution. We all know that only one of these MAC's will show up on the link layer at any given moment. And, it's not like there is fencing put around every place users could mess things up on a router!
I used the term statically-addressed which was confusing - apologies. I only seek a dynamic DHCP assignment of an IP via some IP reservation mechanism. There is no static IP option on the Kasa smart plug (I would want to manage addresses centrally, anyway) and I do not want to use a smartphone app to operate plugs manually. Instead, I want to automate an "on" command for a pump when a container is getting full using a Node-Red interface. People like to automate stuff like this and are hitting this issue and building their own dnsmasq or moving to DD-WRT or proprietary mesh rather than leveraging existing standards and asking vendor to fix what they have broken.
schumaku
Apr 22, 2024Guru - Experienced User
Jamie-NH wrote:
Now, what would break if the router allowed for a reservation table that had the same two MAC's for this single interface? If NETGEAR cannot share this info between the EX8000 and XR700, then just let me type it in myself and leave the responsibility with me with some words of caution. We all know that only one of these MAC's will show up on the link layer at any given moment. And, it's not like there is fencing put around every place users could mess things up on a router!
To say it once again: The MAC translation in place on these old extender designs is key for it's operations. Sure, it does prohibit -any- common DHCP server implementation to assign the same IP address what are physically to different networks, on both sides of the extender (the wireless vs. the physical LAN port).