Hello,
I have an AI Mesh network in my home with the GT-AX11000 being the main router for the network. I needed a static IP for my network to be able to run a personal server that I would be able to access from outside my home. When I called my ISP to request for a static IP, they said that they only provide a static IP to business accounts but what they do have is what they call a "Fixed Public IP". How they do this is they bind the IP address that they provide to me to the MAC address of my router. Theoretically this should have worked as I don't change the main router for my network so I should have always had the same public IP.
However what was happening was that I was receiving a new IP from the ISP every morning when my router rebooted itself as per my daily reboot schedule. When the folks at the ISP looked at their logs, they saw that the router was releasing the IP that it held upon reboot and then doing a IP refresh upon reconnecting instead of simply rebooting and doing a refresh without a release. Since it released the IP when the router reconnects, it was requesting and getting a new IP from the ISP. I confirmed that if I don't reboot the router, then the IP address remains the same.
Is there a way to prevent the router from releasing the IP upon rebooting and simply asking for a IP refresh instead?
I would appreciate any help I can get with this matter.
I have an AI Mesh network in my home with the GT-AX11000 being the main router for the network. I needed a static IP for my network to be able to run a personal server that I would be able to access from outside my home. When I called my ISP to request for a static IP, they said that they only provide a static IP to business accounts but what they do have is what they call a "Fixed Public IP". How they do this is they bind the IP address that they provide to me to the MAC address of my router. Theoretically this should have worked as I don't change the main router for my network so I should have always had the same public IP.
However what was happening was that I was receiving a new IP from the ISP every morning when my router rebooted itself as per my daily reboot schedule. When the folks at the ISP looked at their logs, they saw that the router was releasing the IP that it held upon reboot and then doing a IP refresh upon reconnecting instead of simply rebooting and doing a refresh without a release. Since it released the IP when the router reconnects, it was requesting and getting a new IP from the ISP. I confirmed that if I don't reboot the router, then the IP address remains the same.
Is there a way to prevent the router from releasing the IP upon rebooting and simply asking for a IP refresh instead?
I would appreciate any help I can get with this matter.