strodoggydog Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 I got my router last night, and I have to say it's a truly awesome product. The Geo filter is perfect. I have a setup where I had hoped to have modem->r1(wifi off)->tp link (with dhcp off). I have connected them via Ethernet (just to be clear using LAN ports and not the WAN). I have previously set this up where I'd assign a LAN IP on the second router outside the DCHP range of the first router to avoid the small change of a conflict. However, I could only pick an IP within that of the DCHP of the netuma. I settled for 192.168.88.250 whereas when I tried 192.168.88.300, my to link told me this wasn't a valid IP. I have two questions. 1. Is it not possible to manually set an IP address outside the range defined by the DHCP? 2. If not, should I reserve an IP address on the Netuma for the second router? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abc123 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Ah, so IP addresses are actually (IPv4) 4 sets of octets (1-255) So your ip range is 192.168.88.1-255, so 300 is out of range because of that. IE not a valid IP address, due to IPv4 specification. Dhcp should be 192.168.88.100-250 so I would recommend making the second router 192.168.88.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strodoggydog Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Cool. Thanks for help. I just picked a number higher than 250. My bad. Should I reserve that address in r1 also though there seems no need of it's outside range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Netduma_Iain Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Thanks for purchasing and really glad you're having a good time. No need Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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