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I am confused. I am running on a RT-AX88U and with firmware 384.18. I manage all my devices on my local network using DHCP on the RT-AX88U. I was adding my grandson’s laptop to the DHCP table and this message popped up. I thought I could have 128 devices in the table.

I do have 64 devices in the table and get this message when I try to add the 65th device.

I uploaded firmware 384.19 to the router and same message.

What am I doing wrong?
 

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I also thought that you can manual assign 128 devices, and not only the 50%.

I only have 54 devices under my rt-ax88u. I have not reached this limit yet.
 
Ok. Thank you Dave.

I am always using the DHCP Server tab under the LAN settings when I want to add a new manual assignment. ☺️
 
All the more reason to not use the WebUI/nvram for assigning static addresses and using a dnsmasq.conf.add file.
No more limits to number of entries or (as of the 384 code base) number of characters.

@Xentrk created a script that makes it easier to convert the first time.

This assumes you are comfortable using the CLI and an editor like nano or vi.
 
I also thought that you can manual assign 128 devices, and not only the 50%.

I only have 54 devices under my rt-ax88u. I have not reached this limit yet.

At that number of devices, what's the point with manually assigning the DHCP lease? Just let the DHCP server do its thing...
 

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