Thanks CiscoX and RMerlin, let me reset everything and try again. Just to confirm, the chosen static IP must be outside of the DHCP lease range?
Also, this work-around cannot be done on the stock Asus firmware?
Thanks for all your help!
Feb 18 23:07:15 dnsmasq-dhcp[1056]: not giving name localhost to the DHCP lease of 192.168.1.11 because the name exists in /etc/hosts with address 127.0.0.1
Feb 18 23:11:38 dnsmasq-dhcp[1056]: not giving name localhost to the DHCP lease of 192.168.1.11 because the name exists in /etc/hosts with...
Hi RMerlin, tried your guided steps and I gave a valid hostname "SamsungSmartTV" and tied to a static lease, and all these were done on the DHCP lease page. The error message is still happening. Anything that I have missed?