RE700X not use the DHCP address
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Hi,
I added an RE700X to my exitent Home wileress lan in extender mode.
Repeater is counfigured in high speed mode:
- 5GHz as uplink with the exitent wirless
- 2.4GHz as extended wireless
Easy mesh and DHCP server is set to disable on the extender
Extender LAN is configured to retrieve address from a DHCP server on the Home LAN
I configured the Homa LAN DHCP server to assign fixed address to the extender (.249)
From extender log I can see that it retrieve multiple address from DHCP server.
If I try to reach the extender web interface on the fixed assigned ip (.249) it isn't reacheable and I need to use the first address (.144)
The problem is that the .144 address is dynamically and that it is not tracked in my dhcp server.
For the Extender on the log of my LAN DHCP Server I see the error: "Failed connection to SSID xxxxxxxxxx on access point yyyyyyyyyyyy because the client rejected the DHCP server’s offer.t rejected the DHCP server’s offer.
I suppose a bug in the firmware.
Hardware Version: RE700X v1.0
Software Version: 1.1.4 Build 20230509 Rel. 78185
2024-02-18 15:37:40 dhcpc:DHCP obtained an IP address 192.168.4.249
2024-02-18 15:37:38 dhcpc:Sent a request for DHCP.
2024-02-18 15:37:38 dhcpc:Received a DHCP offer:Server ID is 54.Assigned IP address is 192.168.4.249
2024-02-18 15:37:36 dhcpc:Sent a detection for DHCP.
2023-01-01 00:00:46 dhcpc:DHCP obtained an IP address 192.168.4.144
2023-01-01 00:00:44 dhcpc:Sent a request for DHCP.
2023-01-01 00:00:44 dhcpc:Received a DHCP offer:Server ID is 54.Assigned IP address is 192.168.4.144
2023-01-01 00:00:42 dhcpc:Sent a detection for DHCP.
Hi,
On my model RE305 range extender the MAC address that can be used to assign an IP address via DHCP is the MAC address that is printed on the label on the backside of the RE305.
So, in case the MAC address that is currently used in your DHCP server to assign 192.168.4.249 to is not the one printed on the label of your RE700X, then you could try what happens if you manually enter the MAC address from the label into your DHCP server and have it assign 192.168.4.249 to it.
If the above doesn't work either, then your last option would be to manually set an IP address directly on the RE700X. (just make sure you enter the correct Gateway and DNS addresses)
Unfortunatelly seems a really bug of the firmware.
added 3 fix entry in DHCP using the MAC Address in the Access control page
I found a log in my server where for each of these tree entries the Mac Address is announced as ff.ff.ff.ff.ff.ff
| IP | MAC |
|---|---|
| 192.168.4.248 | ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff |
| 192.168.4.249 | ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff |
| 192.168.4.250 | ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff |
So at this point definitively a bug in the firmware for my opinion. I can't assign a static ip address due to network policy of my wifi that deny access to a client whitout address assigned from dhcp.
This is the log on RE700X that confirm the fact about repeater don't use the address received from dhcp (.249) and still accessible on the first one that is not tracked on dhcp server (.250)
