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Weird networking issue
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OP | Post 16 made on Friday April 8, 2016 at 15:33
SWOInstaller
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On April 8, 2016 at 15:03, buzz said...
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Nonsense. The WAN side of the router has no concept of DHCP. An address is an address -- but you may need to open a port or set up a VPN for special services.

The router setup is the worst I have seen. Nothing is labeled as VPN, port forwarding, port triggering, impossible to actually understand the settings of this POS device.

I encourage the customer to purchase a modem and skip the monthly rental fees. Payback is usually about a year. Then we can install a robust router and lock it down. Hopefully, my router will scare the cable guy and he'll leave it alone.

I am in Canada and none of our ISP's allow for customers to supply their own modems (at least in my area)

Although one can reserve an IP address for a device that needs a fixed address, I prefer placing fixed addresses outside of the DHCP range.

I do as well however for this scenario I'm just going to use the DHCP reservation and be done with it.
You can't fix stupid
Post 17 made on Saturday April 9, 2016 at 11:30
weddellkw
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Agree with buzz, the ISP may be trying to avoid headaches supporting user-devices, but the gateway shouldn't care whether a device is dhcp or not on the LAN side.

Did you check your static dns settings vs. those of a dhcp client?
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