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[FurryNutz]

So by setting DCHP reservations to Static in the routers Setup/Network Settings for ALL of your devices, and setting the those devices to Obtaing IP Address Automatically does not work?

[Ahhk]

Well, no....I didnt switch all the statics to reserveds. That would be a PITA and would make router replacement/swapping a huge PITA as well.

No, Dad...I dont want to. Dont make me!

Is this static / dynamic isolation a "bug/feature" of the 655 or something? I dont get why I can't have a seamless combination of both?

There are no Apple products anywhere in my house...so it all should be working!!

[FurryNutz]

Do you do a lot of router swapping? Swap using the same model routers?

[Ahhk]

haha...no I dont. But after 15+ years, I have "upgraded" quite a few times.

I still have my DIR628, DIR615, DI-514, and DI707

All the desktops, phone, alarm, TVs, Xboxs, etc are all set static. It would be a huge undertaking to switch them to reserved dhcp.

[FurryNutz]

Well for what it's worth, my entire network is reserved on my router. Should I need to swap with the same router, I can easily reload the configuration file and I'm up in minutes. I would recommend using the routers Reservation options for all of your devices then save of the configuration to file. Makes it easy to load later.

It's really not a huge undertaking of making reservations in the router. This is what the router is for and does.

Do you understand that Reserved and Static means the same thing right?

[Ahhk]

Do you understand that Reserved and Static means the same thing right?

Well, the RESULT might be the same (except in my case), but I refer to them as:

Static IP         = IP hard-set in device/ignores DHCP
Static DHCP     = IP reserved for MAC in router/DHCP server
(Regular) DHCP = random IP assigned by router/DHCP server

Might not be the correct terminology, but this is how I have always referred to it

And, no, clicking the "reserve" link in the router's client list is the easy part. Going to each and every device and setting it back to DHCP is the PITA

I do appreciate all your time/help. I might just go ahead and do it this weekend if I have some free time.

[davevt31]

Taking another shot in the dark.

In the router settings > Setup> Network. Check the box that says Netbios announcement.

I think the main problem is that with the 655 handling DNS it doesn't "see" the systems that don't get a DHCP address from it, therefore it doesn't pass information along the network.

[fordman]

And, no, clicking the "reserve" link in the router's client list is the easy part. Going to each and every device and setting it back to DHCP is the PITA

What FurryNutz describes is how I have my DIR-655 network set up - I've reserved IP addresses in the router for all wired and wireless devices.  ALL of my devices are set up to obtain the IP address automatically from the server (DHCP).  There is NO NEED to change your devices to a static IP address.  When each device requests an IP from the DIR-655, the DIR-655 checks the reservation list and "dynamically serves" the reserved IP to the device!  As far as the "device is concerned," it received a dynamic IP address from the router.  Also, if you increase the lease time for IP addresses, there may not even be a need to reserve them.  If you want to try that increase your IP lease time (I use 30 days) and then set ALL your devices to dynamic/DHCP.  Perhaps that will give you the result you are looking for.  If you do want to have something like a network printer always at the same address (advisable for print driver setup), then simply set the IP in the printer to one that is outside the range of the DIR-655's DHCP server.  The DIR-655 will only provide dynamic IPs that are within the stated range, so there will never be a collision with those you've static (hard) set to ones outside of that range.

Good Luck!