Router/GS502 Help!

[digger16309]

Thanks for all of your replies. Although I'm still kind of confused.

I have the 502 behind my Linksys router, so I'm not using the LAN port on the 502 at all.

I'm only using the WAN port connected to an open port coming off the router.

There is no double NAT issue and even if that was a possibility, I set it to Bridge mode anyway.

What is happening is that yes, the 502 is dynamically assigned an address like 192.168.1.103. All is well until the router decides to refresh the LAN IP addresses on the network for some reason and then the 502 and one of my computers conflict getting the IP address renewed causing the 502 to go offline and into cycling mode. Then when I statically assign it 103, there is conflict again later as my router tries to assign 103 to something else.

So as I understand your posts, if I change the static address for the 502 to outside the DHCP range, like 192.168.1.99 (but using the same subnet 255.255.255.0), then the conflicts should go away, correct?

If so, I'll try that tonight.

I still have a question from my first post. What is the benefit of running DHCP on my home network. Couldn't I just turn that off and assign static addresses to all of my devices?

What are the drawbacks, if any, of not using DHCP?

Again, thanks for your help!

[chpalmer]

I have the 502 behind my Linksys router, so I'm not using the LAN port on the 502 at all.

I'm only using the WAN port connected to an open port coming off the router.

There is no double NAT issue and even if that was a possibility, I set it to Bridge mode anyway.

What is happening is that yes, the 502 is dynamically assigned an address like 192.168.1.103. All is well until the router decides to refresh the LAN IP addresses on the network for some reason and then the 502 and one of my computers conflict getting the IP address renewed causing the 502 to go offline and into cycling mode. Then when I statically assign it 103, there is conflict again later as my router tries to assign 103 to something else.

So as I understand your posts, if I change the static address for the 502 to outside the DHCP range, like 192.168.1.99 (but using the same subnet 255.255.255.0), then the conflicts should go away, correct?

If so, I'll try that tonight.

I still have a question from my first post. What is the benefit of running DHCP on my home network. Couldn't I just turn that off and assign static addresses to all of my devices?

What are the drawbacks, if any, of not using DHCP?

Again, thanks for your help!

Technically the voip portion of the 502 is on its lan subnet. In its own kind of way though...

But I see your problem better now after I have had a little sleep in the last hour. (new child yesterday. )

Yes assign it something else out of the Linksys dhcp range...


Yes you could turn dhcp off but it would make it more difficult to add devices or computers later. Instead you might change the range to something higher in the subnet. I set mine from xx.xx.1.201 - xx.xx.1.225 and then statically assign everything below that.

Good Luck. And sorry for my confusion...

[VOIPoTim]

But I see your problem better now after I have had a little sleep in the last hour. (new child yesterday. )

Congrats. I'm childless and glad I get to sleep as much as I want. Plan for it to stay that way for a while too.

[chpalmer]

Thanks!

Hopefully we will get this ones schedule in the right order a little quicker than his siblings...

[fisamo]

Thanks!

Hopefully we will get this ones schedule in the right order a little quicker than his siblings...

Congrats on the new little guy, and good luck with that (scheduling...)