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Address Reservation Problem

Electron8
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Address Reservation Problem

Hello!

 

 

 

I have a problem with address reservation on my new router Nighthawk RAX50 .

I have added a bunch of cameras that need a fixed IP under ADVANCED - SETUP - LAN SETUP

It all worked fine yesterday but during the night some of the cameras has reconnected and to my surprise they got another IP that I have not reserved. All cameras have an IP reserved that is in the range 2-30. First I had my DHCP starting address set at 1 but today I suspected that maybe the reserved ones has to be outside that range so I changed it to start at 35. Then I reboted the router but the cameras still go the wrong IP. Can someone explain what I am missing here? 

 

Example of one of the cams, this is what I have reserved:

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192.168.15.32     CAM2      00:FA:A7:65:3F:45

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DHCP: Starting IP: 192.168.15.35
Ending IP: 192.168.15.255

Looking at Attached Devices I see:  CAM2  192.168.15.236

 

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microchip8
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Re: Address Reservation Problem

Maybe your cams change their MAC address. Some are known to do that

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Electron8
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Re: Address Reservation Problem

Nope. I have checked and they are the same.

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plemans
Guru

Re: Address Reservation Problem

Are they connecting using a different band? (using smart connect and the camera moved from one band to the other)

I've seen issues (rarely) where devices are assigned a different ip address or mac because they went from 2.4ghz to 5ghz connection. 

 

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Electron8
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Re: Address Reservation Problem

They are wired and connected to a switch that goes to the backside of the router.

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