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Static IP Address Not working on Satellites
I have a RBR50 [2.7.2.104] which has 4 satellites (RBS50x2 [2.7.2.104], RBW30x2 [2.6.2.2]). In order to help with supporting my routers I have set static IP addresses for satellites. After the...
One thing I was wondering, maybe it was self-inflected? The static routes I had setup were part of the DHCP range...would that have created this issue? The printer didn't have problems, which is why I'm now wondering about my latest theroy.
> [...] I have set static IP addresses for satellites. [...]
Real static addresses, not reserved dynamic addresses? Why?
Especially for a device like a satellite, which would be approximately
useless without the main router (and its DHCP server) working. Why buy
trouble?
> [...] The static routes I had setup were part of the DHCP
> range...would that have created this issue? [...]
"static route" and "static IP address" are spelled differently for a
reason.
Manually handing out addresses from the DHCP pool could certainly
cause problems. If you really want to use static addresses, then shrink
the DHCP pool, and use only ex-pool addresses for those static
addresses.
> The printer didn't have problems, [...]
Some of us non-psychics can't see any of your IP addresses, which
makes it tough to guess which devices might be affected first.
After all of this I have realized that this is due to the other DNS issues that we are having on the Orbi ... see other posts.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-DNS-and-DHCP-and-NTP-Broken/m-p/2070961