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DHCP Address Reservations not Working
Hello all...
My setup:
AT&T GigaPower Fiber (1000/1000) with 5 Public Static IP Addresses
The RBR50 is hooked into the modem and is assigned one of those PUBLIC STATIC IPs, and bypasses the...
Just to be clear, IP address reservations need to be given while Inside the IP address range, not out side of it. Any IP addresses out side of the IP address range are meant for Static IP addressing that are set ON the connected devices only.
junktrunk wrote:
Thanks for the follow up. Just in case my previous post wasn't clear, it's not that the router was giving addresses outside of the start-end range. It was that if a reservation was created for an address that was outside that range, the router chose to ignore the reservation completely and instead give an address within the range. When I adjusted the range to be wide enough to include the reservation addresses, it correctly assigned those addresses to those devices. I don't see other routers interpret the range so strictly. At a minimum I think the user should receive a warning if the range and reservations are in conflict and will generate unexpected problems.
Yeah I got that. My point was that there's no reason for such a limitation to exist. I should be able to say I want dynamic IP assignments to be from a certain pool of addresses, but I want certain devices to be able to be assigned whatever address I set, whether inside the dynamic range or not. There's no technical reason why that shouldn't be possible, as I did it all the time before on D-Link equipment.
Also at the very least the Orbi should make more clear that that's not supported.
Also at the very least the Orbi should make more clear that that's not supported.
Well since Orbi is a home class router, not much call for advanced DHCP addressing. I think most averages users just want simple addressing where needed. Anything beyond that is not useful for most and thus probably why NG isn't supporting anything advanced DHCP features like other mfrs. NG chooses to run there systems they way they see fit. DHCP Addresss Reservations IS working on Orbi. The behavior of DHCP and reservations is for only inside a pool range. Anything outside is not supported for reservations. Anything outside a pool range is meant for static IP addresses which are set ON devices. Not on a router. This is normal networking standards btw.
Good Luck.