Hi All,

A really weird situation here.  I have a bunch of Decos around the house all wired in via the ethernet port. They are connected to a Starlink modem and the modem is set to passive, the Decos are managing the IP allocation and the wifi. The cable from the starlink modem goes to my main deco and from there it connects to an 8 port gigabit switch that everything else is connected to.

There's one device on my system (Hayward OmniLogic pool controller) that is not getting a dynamic IP address.  Other wired devices (TVs, etc) are getting a dynamic IP without issue.  I've confirmed the cable to the Hayward is fine, my laptop connects normally from there.  I've used an old Linksys router wired to the hayward with the same cable and the Hayward gets an IP address.  For a very brief period a few days ago the Hayward did receive an IP address and it worked for about 4 hours before it lost the IP address and haven't been able to connect since.

Things I've done to trouble shoot

- I've checked that the device is not on the block list.

- Tried reserving a free IP for the Hayward and configured it for static IP, but no connection

- Connected the network cable to my linksys router then a cable from the linksys to the hayward and it got an IP but no internet connectivity (maybe need to forward a port?)

- Set up a whole new deco system with one deco and nothing else, plugged the Hayward into it and no IP.

- I've tried plugging the Hayward directly into the main deco unit but no IP.

Whenever I tested anything I reset the Hayward network connection and gave it up to 20 minutes to connect.  When it worked with the Linksys router it took under a minute for it to display the network information.

Does anyone have any idea what could be going on? If I can't get it connected via the decos, I'm OK leaving it connected to the linksys, but is someone able to help me with port forwarding so it can access the internet?

Thanks for reading all this!

Yotam