Networks and DHCP's... A little advice, please.

[GiT]

Morning all. This might be a little long winded, but will hopefully make sense.

The in-laws have a rather large bungalow and The router/modem is almost at one end and the main PC / Camera hub/recorder is at the other.

But, in effect, I have duplicated my system I have at home (to a point) and given 4 cameras and the camera server (Recorder - that's a Brix PC on W10) a static IP each.

192.168.1.90 to 94. 5 Devices.

Now, his router was originally a BT Hub 3.0 (Complete aids) and it's just been "upgraded" to a BT Hub 6 (as the 3.0 died over Xmas).

Now, the router has EVERYTHING connected wirelessly - as the 4 cameras, the server and his main PC are connected to a POE 8 port hub - which is connected to a TP-Link repeater (TL-WA850RE - which does the job perfectly.

I have had a little bother in the BT hub settings, but think it's sussed... I have set the DHCP range from 192.168.1.95 to 192.168.1.253 and turned off Authoritative DHCP (as some devices appeared to be forcing a Static connection).

I assume this is now all correct, as I am getting solid records, solid streaming to the app for the cameras and all the interwebz are fine? I keep the Statics out of the DHCP pool, don't I?

Cheers.

 

[a0004_uk]

Yep, keep the statics out of scope to avoid any conflicts.

 

[GiT]

Yep, keep the statics out of scope to avoid any conflicts.

Cheers fella. It's the Statics that are popping up oddly in the DHCP pool that I'm now trying to get my nogging around. Also a Mac address that's not even taking an IP address. But, it's all working fine

 

[welshname]

Cheers fella. It's the Statics that are popping up oddly in the DHCP pool that I'm now trying to get my nogging around. Also a Mac address that's not even taking an IP address. But, it's all working fine

The MAC address that has no IP is possibly the switch you’re using. If it’s a non managed switch then it won’t get an IP.

 

[GiT]

The MAC address that has no IP is possibly the switch you’re using. If it’s a non managed switch then it won’t get an IP.

Did consider that - kept it on as it's not doing owt to harm anything.

 

[rctempire]

Personally id drop your DHCP scope size wise. Never going to have 200 devices connected on dhcp at once really.

Plus then you can assign your static ips away from the scope and then its never going to interfere.

 

[GiT]

Personally id drop your DHCP scope size wise. Never going to have 200 devices connected on dhcp at once really.

Plus then you can assign your static ips away from the scope and then its never going to interfere.

Exactly what I have done - seems to be working perfectly right now, too.

 

[Gray]

Personally id drop your DHCP scope size wise. Never going to have 200 devices connected on dhcp at once really.

Plus then you can assign your static ips away from the scope and then its never going to interfere.

Exactly what I have done - seems to be working perfectly right now, too.

That would have been my suggestion!

Job jobbed.