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ORBI not properly associating static IP
Hello! I've been trying to use the Address Reservation feature under Advanced -> Setup -> LAN Setup. I have a PC that is hardwired (Ethernet, not wireless) to the RBS50 satellite (not the base RB...
I know this is an old thread but I was having the same problem with reserved addresses not getting assigned. I tried the "trick" of changing the DHCP addresses from x.x.x.21 to x.x.x.254 TO x.x.x.21 to x.x.x.100.
Restarted the devices that were not getting the addresses I wanted and it all worked. I had tried restarting the devices prior to changing the auto assigned addresses range and it did not work at that time. Only after changing the range of the auto addresses.
I know enough to know that should not change the addresses I wanted reserved. Nothing was assigned in the >100 range in the first place. All I know is it solved my problem.
Sure I could find something else that works. But I paid for something that should already work. If Netgear will refund my purchase then I'll gladly return their hw/sw.
It works for you. Bravo. It doesn't work for me. Nor for many others according to this post.
One strategy for IoT devices is to create the reservation in the LAN setup table after the device has been assigned an IP by the Orbi DHCP process. This has the disadvantage of "lacking order." Being somewhat OCD, I want all my smart plugs to have IP's that are grouped together. (All the security cameras grouped, etc.) Functionally it makes no difference, but I like what I like.
Another strategy is.to make the reservation in the LAN Setup table before configuring the device. For devices that do not have the hardware MAC address printed on the device, the device has to be configured and join the Orbi network to discover the MAC address. Then, create the reservation, reset the device, and configure it again.
I, also, find the Orbi DHCP system to be disappointing. When a device gets "fixated" on an IP that I do not want it to have, I follow this procedure:
- Power off the IoT device.
- Set some device with a Static IP that the IoT has "stuck to".
The network now has a device with that IP active on the network. - When the IoT device is powered on again, Orbi does an ARP request and says, "sorry, that IP is in use. Oh look, here's a nice IP address in the LAN setup table for you."
- I also have the same problem.....
It seems to the feature of ‘address reservation’ is a joke.....You are correct about this not working correctly for me either. In my case like one mentioned previously when I reserved the address of the device in my case a Roku Ultra it caused the device to ask for another ip address and assigned it a different ip then the one it was using and I had reserved. This is clearly a very simple concept that should work on a $600 nearly top of the line Orbi Mesh network devices. For people to say here is the work around or use the ISP solution that is garbage. Why would Netgear Orbi put in the GUI that you can do this if they didn't intend on it working. Netgear needs to make this work as more people will need this depending on their home automation systems and I would think that Netgear Orbi's would want to be doing what they say they can do and more to entice new customers and keep their old ones.
What Orbi model do you have?
silenthammer wrote:
You are correct about this not working correctly for me either. In my case like one mentioned previously when I reserved the address of the device in my case a Roku Ultra it caused the device to ask for another ip address and assigned it a different ip then the one it was using and I had reserved. This is clearly a very simple concept that should work on a $600 nearly top of the line Orbi Mesh network devices. For people to say here is the work around or use the ISP solution that is garbage. Why would Netgear Orbi put in the GUI that you can do this if they didn't intend on it working. Netgear needs to make this work as more people will need this depending on their home automation systems and I would think that Netgear Orbi's would want to be doing what they say they can do and more to entice new customers and keep their old ones.
