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rzwitserloot
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Apr 22, 2013

PLEASE fix really annoying bug: Can't set static IP at all.

A freshly configured readyNAS, once in 'DHCP' mode, cannot be changed until it actually connects to a DHCP server. That means when I try to place a ReadyNAS at a client's office, I need to go through an extremely annoying song and dance routine where I hook up the readyNAS to my own laptop, start a DHCP server on my own laptop, reboot things umptheen times, finally get the readyNAS to register DHCP, and then immediately take it off that and onto static IP.

This is a bug in the software: If the readyNAS is on DHCP but can't find a DHCP server it defaults to 192.168.168.168 and you connect to it as that IP and change things, but no matter what you do in the 'ethernet settings' part of the configuration, it just gets ignored and it sticks with 'automatic', ignoring whatever changes you try to make here.

As a first step please fix this bug, but more generally it would be vastly more convenient if you can configure the IP settings with RAIDar directly, because even if this bug is fixed I'd have to dive into the IP settings of my laptop or some on-site computer and join 192.168.* first, then switch the IP of the NAS without feedback which isn't particularly user friendly, then switch back, and if it doesn't work start all over again.

Thanks!

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