OK - your suggestions did not work, and they did not work because the damn GS502 continues to cycle in a mentally unstable way anytime I make any changes at all. I barely have enough time to put in the password before I can make a change, hit update, and reboot. Then it just cycles until I figure out some new combination to boot everything so it can obtain a dynamically assigned LAN address.

On reboot I get something similar to this person:

Quote Originally Posted by 1bird2 View Post
Setting a static IP does not seem to work for me.

I log in as Tim mentions. Set IP address to a private IP in my network (NAT'd behind a FW), set subnet, default route and add two public DNS server addresses (my ISP DNS servers)

I update this info, select "Update". Message returned that values are saved, reboot to take affect. I reboot device remotely. Wait 30 secs and login again.

THe static IP is set (as I login with the new IP address in the browser), but the DNS entries are gone and all set to 0.0.0.0. I also notice I have lost dial tone and LED on GS is now flashing on / off with red color.

Log back in to GS. Reset to Dynamic (note, I have reserved an IP for the GS by MAC address), save configuration, reboot GS. Everything works after I do this.
Basically, I can set the static IP, but then it doesn't have DNS so it is useless.

I ended up setting a static address to my other devices and leaving my router setup with DHCP to set the 502 dynamically. But I'm not certain that is going to hold when the lease expires (I have it set to maximum - 24 days).

Again, this is very frustrating. I ended up missing a workout tonight because I was screwing around with this.

I have now spent more time in 4 days fussing with this setup to get it to work, than I ever did with (GASP) ViaTalk, in 16 months.