Quick way to re-enter your IP reservations after factory reset

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CrimpOn wrote:

.........  I am not confident that "saving configuration" would be of much use in my situation, because the ways that my Orbi is disappointing me have appeared since an automatic firmware upgrade and I have continued to enter new device reservations.  At this point, I suspect that "something is amiss" that only a reset to factory would address, and I have avoided doing that because of the prospect of typing in all those MAC addresses.

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Completely agree. usually why I choose to do a factory reset is that I suspect a data corruption somewere and a backup/restore will just get me back to where I was.

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CrimpOn wrote:

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In addition to device reservations, the NVRAM dump also includes lines like this:

          orbi_dev_name12=24:92:0E:31:52:FA Dicks New Tablet

The numbers do not match the "reservation" numbers.  Any idea if this is something that could be entered with Telnet commands, or will it propogate automatically?

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The entry orbi_dev_name12=24:92:0E:31:52:FA Dicks New Tablet is the "Device Name" that you can edit in the "Attached Devices" list below (in the blue box):

You will also find another entry with the same MAC address like this 

orbi_dev_name_ntgr9=24:92:0E:31:52:FA Samsung Tablet that corresponds to the device type (the red box) in the snapshot above.

The numbers do not match. The system uses only the MAC address to match the different entries with each other.

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CrimpOn wrote:

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And.... I presume that changing the device reservations to be in order by IP address would not cause a problem, since the "factory reset" creates a totally empty table.  (This is one of my other disappointments with Orbi firmware: that we cannot sort displays by column.  This would not help the "attached devices" display, but it would at least cause the reservation table to be in IP order for a little while.

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Yes, you can edit the commands as you wish, everything should have been wiped after a factory reset. You can also use the telnet commands to change an existing setting, so if you enter the config command for the same variable twice like this:

config set reservation3="192.168.1.20 A0:99:9B:0B:3F:5B Dicks Macbook"

config set reservation3="192.168.1.20 A0:99:9B:0B:3F:5B The new Macbook"

Then the second command will override the first one.