Regarding availability of IP address reservation

[ashu00]

Does D500 supports IP address reservation? I have a printer for which I want to assign a static IP, settings on printer are done and setup works too. but sometimes when printer is off and if I connect a mobile phone, then it gets assigned same IP as printer. I want to bind that IP to printer's mac address, but unable to find such settings in router configuration.

P.S. I'm already on latest firmware V1.0.0.28_1.0.1PE

[antinode · Accepted solution]

> [...] if I set DHCP range to say for eg., 192.168.x.11-192.168.x.255
> and setup printer on static IP betweent 192.168.x.2-10, would that work?

   If the D500 has the required features, then sure.  (And that would
then be a true static address, not a reserved dynamic address.)

   I might choose a DHCP pool range like, say, ".100" - ".254", to make
it more obvious which devices have static/dynamic addresses.

   The critical thing is to keep static addresses out of the DHCP pool.
Around here, with a feature-rich D7000, I have static addresses on all
my old junk, and reserved addresses for almost everything else, so I
have a DHCP pool which is unusually small (16 wide).  And just in case
the DHCP server is stupid, my reserved addresses are also outside the
pool.

[antinode]

> Does D500 supports IP address reservation? [...]

   I don't see it (or much else) in the D500 User Manual.  "Essentials
Edition" appears to be a polite way to say "barely a router".

[ashu00]

Thanks. Guess I should've done better research before buying. dlink atleast doesn't strips off basic functions.

on the other thought if I set DHCP range to say for eg., 192.168.x.11-192.168.x.255 and setup printer on static IP betweent 192.168.x.2-10, would that work?

[antinode · Accepted solution]

> [...] if I set DHCP range to say for eg., 192.168.x.11-192.168.x.255
> and setup printer on static IP betweent 192.168.x.2-10, would that work?

   If the D500 has the required features, then sure.  (And that would
then be a true static address, not a reserved dynamic address.)

   I might choose a DHCP pool range like, say, ".100" - ".254", to make
it more obvious which devices have static/dynamic addresses.

   The critical thing is to keep static addresses out of the DHCP pool.
Around here, with a feature-rich D7000, I have static addresses on all
my old junk, and reserved addresses for almost everything else, so I
have a DHCP pool which is unusually small (16 wide).  And just in case
the DHCP server is stupid, my reserved addresses are also outside the
pool.

[ashu00]

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@antinode wrote:

> [...] if I set DHCP range to say for eg., 192.168.x.11-192.168.x.255
> and setup printer on static IP betweent 192.168.x.2-10, would that work?

   If the D500 has the required features, then sure.  (And that would
then be a true static address, not a reserved dynamic address.)

   I might choose a DHCP pool range like, say, ".100" - ".254", to make
it more obvious which devices have static/dynamic addresses.

   The critical thing is to keep static addresses out of the DHCP pool.
Around here, with a feature-rich D7000, I have static addresses on all
my old junk, and reserved addresses for almost everything else, so I
have a DHCP pool which is unusually small (16 wide).  And just in case
the DHCP server is stupid, my reserved addresses are also outside the
pool.

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