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Fixed wifi ip has no internet connection
Trying to set a fixed ip on my wifi connection (tried it on several apple devices) It connects to the router, but I get no internet connection I can see the device in my list of attached devices (w...
> Trying to set a fixed ip on my wifi connection [...]
Why? Is there some actual problem which you are trying to solve?
How, exactly?
"fixed" as in "static" (configured on the device itself), or "fixed"
as in "reserved dynamic" (configured on the (DHCP server on the)
router)?
If "static", then are you also setting appropriate gateway and DNS
server addresses?
antinode wrote:> Trying to set a fixed ip on my wifi connection [...]
Why? Is there some actual problem which you are trying to solve?
How, exactly?"fixed" as in "static" (configured on the device itself), or "fixed"
as in "reserved dynamic" (configured on the (DHCP server on the)
router)?If "static", then are you also setting appropriate gateway and DNS
server addresses?This is how the setup is done, via fixed ip adresses.
dhcp works, they just want fixed ip's.
Fixed indeed as in static, configured on the device, not on the router
I'm setting gateway and dns, I see the connections on the router.
> This is how the setup is done, [...]
Not really an explanation of why.
> [...] dhcp works, they just want fixed ip's. [...]
Using reserved dynamic addresses also gives devices fixed IP
addresses, just not static addresses. Why not do that?> I'm setting gateway and dns, [...]
To _what_?
> [...] I see the connections on the router.
"see" what, how? In an Attached Devices report, or what? Can you
"ping" such a device from another device on your LAN?
I've never tried it, so I know nothing, but, if you do everything
right, then I'd expect a static IP configuration to work on a
wireless-connected device. But if there's some reason that it doesn't
(firmware bug, or whatever), then why not simply use address reservation
with DHCP?> [...] Is there some actual problem which you are trying to solve?
> [...]Still a mystery.
antinode wrote:> This is how the setup is done, [...]
Not really an explanation of why.
"Why" is unimportant. It should work.
> [...] dhcp works, they just want fixed ip's. [...]
Using reserved dynamic addresses also gives devices fixed IP
addresses, just not static addresses. Why not do that?Sure I can do that.
I wasn't asking for a workaround, rather if anyone else has encountered this issue.
> I'm setting gateway and dns, [...]
To _what_?
gateway to router
dns also to router and secondary to opendns
> [...] I see the connections on the router.
"see" what, how? In an Attached Devices report, or what? Can you
"ping" such a device from another device on your LAN?yes, as I stated in the beginning: I can see the device in my list of attached devices (with the set ip adress)
I can also ping these devices from other devices, be it wired or wireless
I've never tried it, so I know nothing, but, if you do everything
right, then I'd expect a static IP configuration to work on a
wireless-connected device. But if there's some reason that it doesn't
(firmware bug, or whatever), then why not simply use address reservation
with DHCP?Stated above
> [...] Is there some actual problem which you are trying to solve?
yes, wireless devices with manually set ip's do not get routed to the internet.
> [...]Still a mystery.
I can't explain it any clearer than this.