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DHCP - Need to release IP addresses
Why can I not release IP addresses? Even with a reboot it still holds on to old addresses. I created a reservation and when I look in the clients list I see 3 different addresses for the same device....
Good news and bad news. 192.168.1.162 is actually a real device. It is a Wemo wall light switch. All of my other Wemo switches show up as "Belkin International" as the device model and "Wemo" as the device name.
I had named 192.168.1.162 as "Chamberlian" and "Garage door" and then when I moved the device to a reserved IP, .162 was available and in a reboot it was assigned to the Wemo light switch. Which is a real problem. Apparently names stay with the IP, not the device (or, more specifically) the MAC address.)
I had come from an Amplifi system and those names were tied to MACs, not IPs. I am not sure that this is what the typical user would expect when they name a device.
Glad you figured out that Orbi was not giving out two IPs to one device.
That should have been evident from the MAC addresses in the connected devices list though.