Sky
Regular Contributor
I have a handful of devices that need to have reserved IPs due to their rather limited or non-existent ability to reconnect if their IP changes after a warm boot or a power cycle. These aren't static IP clients, they have no user-enabled ability to "set" the IP on the client; they're just really bad—or even 100% unable—at reconnecting if the DHCP server changes their IP.
In the past I've used LAN > DHCP Server > Manually Assigned IP around the DHCP List (Max Limit: 64) feature to set these up. However, Network Map > (circular Client button) > Client Status > (device) > MAC and IP Address Binding on-off slider appears to do the same thing but does not populate the DHCP List.
So I am wondering:
In the past I've used LAN > DHCP Server > Manually Assigned IP around the DHCP List (Max Limit: 64) feature to set these up. However, Network Map > (circular Client button) > Client Status > (device) > MAC and IP Address Binding on-off slider appears to do the same thing but does not populate the DHCP List.
So I am wondering:
- Does the MAC & IP Address Binding slider do the same thing?
- Is it preferable to use the MAC-IP Address Binding feature or the old DHCP List feature?
- What's the difference between these?
- Does one perhaps use more NVRAM than the other?
- Something else?
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