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Can't assign static IP address
I have a Netgear R7960P I am trying to assign a static IP address to a device on my LAN. I go to Advanced/LAN Setup/Address Reservation. After I click Add the first time a list of the devices on my LAN appears. I click the radio button to the left of the device I want to assign, and its current name, LAN IP address and MAC address populate the fields on the bottom of the page. There is no "Apply" button to click, so I click the green "Add" button again. I get an error message "Invalid MAC address". This happens repeatedly. I am using the MAC address that the Router itself displays and with which it populates the MAC field in the dialog.
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Static IP address differs from IP address Reservation.
Static IP address is set ON devices, not the router.
IP address reservation is set ON the router.What FW version are you using?
What Browser are you using? Happens with different browsers?
VIP wrote:
I have a Netgear R7960P I am trying to assign a static IP address to a device on my LAN. I go to Advanced/LAN Setup/Address Reservation. After I click Add the first time a list of the devices on my LAN appears. I click the radio button to the left of the device I want to assign, and its current name, LAN IP address and MAC address populate the fields on the bottom of the page. There is no "Apply" button to click, so I click the green "Add" button again. I get an error message "Invalid MAC address". This happens repeatedly. I am using the MAC address that the Router itself displays and with which it populates the MAC field in the dialog.
The firmware version is V1.4.4.94_1.3.56.
The problem occurs with a variety of browsers, including Edge on a windows machine, Firefox, Safari, and Arc (a chromium browser) on Mac. I don't think the browser is relevant.
I apologize for my misuse of terminology. I want the Netgear router, acting as a DHCP server, to assign the same IP address to this particular device every time the router boots up again. Right now it assigns them dynamically (so the opposite would seem, logically, to be called statically). So my problem is that I can't get IP address reservation to work. All attempts to do so cause an "invalid MAC address" error.
Logically for networking standards, should be Reserved, not static. Again, static differs from reserved.
Check your PM.
