How to turn off Auto Lease Renewal?

[The Honest Tiger]

As the title says, how do I turn this off? It happens every night at 9pm and always cuts off my streams then it's fine once it's finished.

[Netduma Fraser]

You can't disable it per se but a few options:

1. Reboot the router at a different time such as just prior to going to bed or early morning and it should then shift the renewal to happen then instead
2. Disable DHCP entirely after you've given all devices a reserved IP address - any new devices you want to connect you'll have to give them a static/reserved IP on the device itself first

#1 would be the easiest option really.

[The Honest Tiger]

1 hour ago, Netduma Fraser said:

You can't disable it per se but a few options:

1. Reboot the router at a different time such as just prior to going to bed or early morning and it should then shift the renewal to happen then instead
2. Disable DHCP entirely after you've given all devices a reserved IP address - any new devices you want to connect you'll have to give them a static/reserved IP on the device itself first

#1 would be the easiest option really.

Darn it, I was afraid this would be the answer, ah well, thanks for the confirmation Fraser.

[The Honest Tiger]

Hi again

 

So I rebooted my router at 3am when I made this post and it's still renewing the lease at 8:55pm. Is there a chance that my hub itself needs rebooting as well?

[Netduma Fraser]

Possibly, if the lease on that is renewing it could potentially provide the same effect - reboot the hub first, wait 2 minutes, then reboot the router at a similar time and see if it continues

[The Honest Tiger]

On 11/21/2024 at 10:07 PM, Netduma Fraser said:

Possibly, if the lease on that is renewing it could potentially provide the same effect - reboot the hub first, wait 2 minutes, then reboot the router at a similar time and see if it continues

Okay this time my lease renewed twice in 1 hour, I have no idea what to do anymore.

[Netduma Fraser]

It's unlikely it was that twice, unless it's renewing each device at different times depending on when their lease first started but surely not. Do give them a reserved IP, keep DHCP enabled and see if it happens again.

[The Honest Tiger]

1 minute ago, Netduma Fraser said:

It's unlikely it was that twice, unless it's renewing each device at different times depending on when their lease first started but surely not. Do give them a reserved IP, keep DHCP enabled and see if it happens again.

So am I giving my router a reserved IP to my hub then all my other devices a reserved IP to my router?

[Netduma Fraser]

You can do that, it could certainly eliminate the hub renewing the XR potentially causing a disconnect. I more meant set reserved IPs for the devices connected to the XR in the XR DHCP page

[The Honest Tiger]

1 hour ago, Netduma Fraser said:

You can do that, it could certainly eliminate the hub renewing the XR potentially causing a disconnect. I more meant set reserved IPs for the devices connected to the XR in the XR DHCP page

I'll give it a try and see if my stream disconnects tomorrow, would it help if I send the log if it does?

[Netduma Fraser]

Yes that could help, it's very likely the issue I mentioned, every disconnect issue we've seen on the XR has been due to that, in which case if it's still happening with reserved IPs you'll have to do it for every device and then disable DHCP