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w3wilkes's avatar
w3wilkes
Prodigy
Apr 19, 2017

Orbi DHCP Lease Time?

With the Orbi system can I set the DHCP lease time? If not, this is a deal breaker!

8 Replies

    • w3wilkes's avatar
      w3wilkes
      Prodigy

      I run a Windows Home Server 2011. The Bare metal restore doesn't handle DHCP lease renewel correctly and a Bare Metal Restore fails with Netgear's default 1 hour DHCP lease because a Bare Metal restore runs for more than 1 hour on any of my supported clients. The error after 1 hour of a Bare Metal restore is an "unknown network error". On my old DGND3700v1 the Netgear provided DHCP lease time is 1 hour and from what I've seen this has been the case on all the Netgear routers I've been aware of in the last few years. When I use a router that allows me to set the DHCP lease to a duration longer than a Bare Metal restore runs all is well. I do not believe that MS has fixed the Bare Metal restore TCP/IP stack in more recent server Bare Metal restore so it would not be worth it to upgrade my server as it currently does all I need.

       

      In my case the XY problem doesn't apply. I know what the problem is and how to fix it and Netgear doesn't give me the flexibility to get around the problem MS is giving me.

      • TheEther's avatar
        TheEther
        Guru

        DarrenM, what is the lease time provided by the Orbi?  If it's 1 day then, w3wilkes, your Bare metal restore process should be fine.

  • DarrenM's avatar
    DarrenM
    Sr. NETGEAR Moderator

    It does not have a DHCP lease time.

     

    DarrenM