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bigboymal
Oct 21, 2011Aspirant
mac address conflict
I have started getting a message in my readynas duo logs which reads mac address C8:2A:14:5B:72:EA claims to have our ip address 192.168.0.3 duplicate ip conflict likely, it seems that it is confli...
StephenB
Oct 24, 2011Guru - Experienced User
For you or me that is a good option.
Singularity wrote: I tend to find that with a NAS, static IP addresses are by far the best to use. You will easily find the procedures for doing this either in this forum or in the mac forums.
Cheers
But with someone who has no understanding of DHCP, IP address structure, subnet masks, etc. it is probably better to stick with automatic assignment. If the router supports DHCP address reservation, that would be a very sensible middle-ground.
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