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jazric11
Mar 03, 2022Follower
R6700v3 fails to connect to device on reserved address
I have a Raspberry PI3 attached via RJ45 to the Nighthawk router. Randomly my connection to the PI stopped in the middle of watching a video (PI connected to a NAS drive serving up video via Plex se...
michaelkenward
Mar 04, 2022Guru - Experienced User
It might help if you told people what the modem is in front of this router, if there is one. The model number could be useful. Is it, by any chance, also a router, with a set of LAN ports on the back
jazric11 wrote:
PI3 has a reserved address.
I assume that this IP is reserved on the router.
Is it possible to give the Pi a static address instead? Or even as well?
The Nighthawk refused to connect to the PI3.
It helps to troubleshoot if I think of it the other way round. The only thing the router connects to is the Internet. Then things, like the Pi, connect to the router.