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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-655 => Topic started by: Glennr on September 30, 2010, 10:05:01 AM
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I want to assign a device a static address on the device itself; not a reserved address in the router. The reason is that the device (vonage) sometimes has a problem with trying to renew its address. Even though I assign a reserved address in the router, it looks like the device occasionally tries and fails to renew (even though the address is reserved). I am dealing with the LAN wired ports. So, I have a couple of questions.
1. A reserved address in the router should be inside or outside of the DHCP range?
2. A static address set on the device should be inside or outside of the DHCP range?
3. Does the DIR-655 have any know issues doing this?
I ask number 3 because I have seen a few blogs where people have said they have had issues setting up static IPs and the answers have always been to set of reserved addresses instead.
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Hi Glennr,
Assign a Static IP Address on the Vonage Router, itself.
Then assign that same Static IP Address on the D-Link DIR-655.
This is done exactly the same way for NAS Storage Units, as well, like the D-Link DNS-323 Storage Unit.
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I see no place in my DIR-655 to assign a static IP address. I only see a place to reserve a DHCP address. I have seen other routers which allow you to assign a router port to a particular static IP address. So are you saying that I should reserve the static address assigned in the device so that DHCP does not ever attempt to give that address out?
This is why I asked about what address to use as the static address, inside the DHCP scope or outside of it???
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I see no place in my DIR-655 to assign a static IP address. I only see a place to reserve a DHCP address. I have seen other routers which allow you to assign a router port to a particular static IP address. So are you saying that I should reserve the static address assigned in the device so that DHCP does not ever attempt to give that address out?
This is why I asked about what address to use as the static address, inside the DHCP scope or outside of it???
Hi Glennr,
http://192.168.0.1/Basic/Network.shtml (http://192.168.0.1/Basic/Network.shtml)
The range to use is from 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.199
Inside the DHCP scope.
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Glennr,
A reserved address is within the DHCP range and shows up in the DHCP Reservations List (Setup/Network Settings). You do not have to 'assign' a static address in the router for your network devices, it just has to be outside the DHCP range. If your DHCP range is set to 192.168.0.100-199 then you can assign any static IP address from 192.168.0.200-255 to your device. I am using a DIR-655, three network devices with static IPs (outside my DHCP range) without any issues.