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Fixed wifi ip has no internet connection
Trying to set a fixed ip on my wifi connection (tried it on several apple devices) It connects to the router, but I get no internet connection I can see the device in my list of attached devices (w...
Hi all.I finally got it to work.
Some more testing showed that I had no DNS translation.(on wireless devices with set IP-adresses)
Wired devices and dhcp provided devices were just fine.
Reset the router, re-entered DNS server(s) on devices and it works.
It puzzles me that it was no issue for DHCP provided adresses. A parculiarity on IOS?
In any case, problem solved and thank you for the support.
> Trying to set a fixed ip on my wifi connection [...]
Why? Is there some actual problem which you are trying to solve?
How, exactly?
"fixed" as in "static" (configured on the device itself), or "fixed"
as in "reserved dynamic" (configured on the (DHCP server on the)
router)?
If "static", then are you also setting appropriate gateway and DNS
server addresses?
antinode wrote:> Trying to set a fixed ip on my wifi connection [...]
Why? Is there some actual problem which you are trying to solve?
How, exactly?
"fixed" as in "static" (configured on the device itself), or "fixed"
as in "reserved dynamic" (configured on the (DHCP server on the)
router)?
If "static", then are you also setting appropriate gateway and DNS
server addresses?
This is how the setup is done, via fixed ip adresses.
dhcp works, they just want fixed ip's.
Fixed indeed as in static, configured on the device, not on the router
I'm setting gateway and dns, I see the connections on the router.
> This is how the setup is done, [...]
Not really an explanation of why.
> [...] dhcp works, they just want fixed ip's. [...]
Using reserved dynamic addresses also gives devices fixed IP
addresses, just not static addresses. Why not do that?> I'm setting gateway and dns, [...]
To _what_?
> [...] I see the connections on the router.
"see" what, how? In an Attached Devices report, or what? Can you
"ping" such a device from another device on your LAN?
I've never tried it, so I know nothing, but, if you do everything
right, then I'd expect a static IP configuration to work on a
wireless-connected device. But if there's some reason that it doesn't
(firmware bug, or whatever), then why not simply use address reservation
with DHCP?> [...] Is there some actual problem which you are trying to solve?
> [...]Still a mystery.
antinode wrote:> This is how the setup is done, [...]
Not really an explanation of why.
"Why" is unimportant. It should work.
> [...] dhcp works, they just want fixed ip's. [...]
Using reserved dynamic addresses also gives devices fixed IP
addresses, just not static addresses. Why not do that?Sure I can do that.
I wasn't asking for a workaround, rather if anyone else has encountered this issue.
> I'm setting gateway and dns, [...]
To _what_?
gateway to router
dns also to router and secondary to opendns
> [...] I see the connections on the router.
"see" what, how? In an Attached Devices report, or what? Can you
"ping" such a device from another device on your LAN?yes, as I stated in the beginning: I can see the device in my list of attached devices (with the set ip adress)
I can also ping these devices from other devices, be it wired or wireless
I've never tried it, so I know nothing, but, if you do everything
right, then I'd expect a static IP configuration to work on a
wireless-connected device. But if there's some reason that it doesn't
(firmware bug, or whatever), then why not simply use address reservation
with DHCP?Stated above
> [...] Is there some actual problem which you are trying to solve?
yes, wireless devices with manually set ip's do not get routed to the internet.
> [...]Still a mystery.
I can't explain it any clearer than this.
With the correct IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, and DNS address(es) I can't see why this should not work on any system platform.
Needless to repeat, unless these are really systems which must never move away from the local [W]LAN, configuring DHCP MAC-IP reservation would be the much better option. That's what I would suggest as a workaround for the moment regardless, and as a fall-back anyway.
Have some NAS, a Windows server, and a legacy Mac Mini server on static IP configued to a R9000 here - but different from oyur set-up all wired.
What Apple systems, what kind of interfaces, ... are involved here? Screenshot of the IP config?
