Deco X55 Problems (Smart DHCP and more!)
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Deco X55 Problems (Smart DHCP and more!)
I don't have high hopes, looking at some of the other threads; but I figured it's still worth a try!
I purchased a trio of X55 devices recently, and overall I'm very happy with them. There are two strange and quite painful quirks however, which I would be extremely happy to see fixed or to see some workaround for. My network setup is below:
Ziply Fiber ONT -> OPNsense router (latest STABLE version) -> unmanaged tplink 8-port switch -> Deco X55 'main' node.
- AP mode's "Smart DHCP" is not toggle-able. I saw that this was trialed for the M5 and would love, absolutely love, to be able to have this available for the X55. My problem here specifically, is that after a power outage (and of course with no way to control the order of devices coming back online) the Deco device (in AP mode) comes up and starts its own DHCP server. My devices of course happily take those leases, and then get stuck since the Deco is either not getting, or not respecting the fact that my OPNSense router then comes up and would like to be its own DHCP server. I am looking for some way to:
- I need some way to completely, utterly, disable Deco's DHCP server in AP mode; OR some way for Deco to poll whether or not a DHCP server exists and then turn off its own DHCP.
- Alternatively, I need some way to 'tell' the Deco in AP mode that it should stop its DHCP server
- The second quirk is I see a metric ton of log entries for: "daemon.err bandwidth_contr: get mode: 11AHE160" and have zero idea why or what that means. Call me old fashioned, but even if it turns out to be a non-issue, I like my logfiles to look clean and be free of errors (actual error or no). Any thoughts on what causes this? Or maybe, just maybe, there's some helpful tech that can point me to some code to look at? ;)
