 antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
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| WRT54GL router's DHCP Active IP Table don't show wired ones? Hello.
On my old Linksys WRT54GL router (with its latest stock firmware)'s »192.168.1.1/DHCPTable.asp for DHCP Active IP Table, it only shows wireless connections. How come it doesn't show wired ones?
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 Bill_MIBill In MichiganPremium,MVM
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Royal Oak, MI
kudos:1 | It should, assuming the router hasn't been restarted or those wired machines are not using DHCP.
Restart a wired DHCP machine. Does it then show up? |
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antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
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kudos:4 | reply to antdude
I am a dork. I have my wired machines using static IP addresses. |
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Bill_MIBill In MichiganPremium,MVM
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| No you're not. I run ALL my non-moving wired machines static IP.
BTW, these routers don't remember DHCP clients across reboots. Heck, if they can't get to a time server they have no idea what year it is, either! |
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antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
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| said by Bill_MI:No you're not. I run ALL my non-moving wired machines static IP.
BTW, these routers don't remember DHCP clients across reboots. Heck, if they can't get to a time server they have no idea what year it is, either!
Isn't that normal to forget from a router reboot? Is there a static IP address list in the router?
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Bill_MIBill In MichiganPremium,MVM
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| It's not like the router doesn't carry every packet so it does know every IP. Some routers have logs but I haven't seen it whittled down to a list like the DHCP table. (anyone?) The GL runs Linux which has a connection table at all times but no interface to it in stock firmware.
Forgetting DHCP on reboot is from lack of non-volatile memory - you really don't want to write Flash often. It's not like a harddisk.
As for a real-time-clock with a battery, that's pure cost factor. The low end routers never seem to have these. A time server is much cheaper. |
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antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
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| said by Bill_MI:It's not like the router doesn't carry every packet so it does know every IP. Some routers have logs but I haven't seen it whittled down to a list like the DHCP table. (anyone?) The GL runs Linux which has a connection table at all times.
Forgetting DHCP on reboot is from lack of non-volatile memory - you really don't want to write Flash often. It's not like a harddisk.
As for a real-time-clock with a battery, that's pure cost factor. The low end routers never seem to have these. A time server is much cheaper.
Ah. I wonder where my router is getting its date and time then. It looks correct: "Current Time: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:51:27".
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Bill_MIBill In MichiganPremium,MVM
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kudos:1 | On boot it goes to a time server and gets all it needs. It has your time zone in Flash. |
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antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
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| said by Bill_MI:On boot it goes to a time server and gets all it needs. It has your time zone in Flash.
Ah, I wonder how long this time server will be up. :/ |
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1 edit | Boot up with no WAN/Internet connection and see what time it says!
Some... I don't think the GL does... set time via browser javascript. It says "Thanks for coming to my web page, can you tell me what time it is so I can know?"
EDIT: oh, it has a timer running as a clock. It just doesn't know CURRENT time without the time server. It probably checks it very seldom, maybe once a day.
EDIT2: Time server check at boot, too, of course. |
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said by antdude:I am a dork. I have my wired machines using static IP addresses.
You just answered your own question, that you started this thread with.
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antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
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| said by aefstoggaflm:said by antdude:I am a dork. I have my wired machines using static IP addresses.
You just answered your own question, that you started this thread with. Yeah, I failed. 
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 wayjacPremium,MVM
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Indy | reply to antdude
said by Bill_MI: :BTW, these routers don't remember DHCP clients across reboots. Isn't that normal to forget from a router reboot? Is there a static IP address list in the router?
Most all dhcp clients will retain it's dhcp lease info if the dhcp server does not refuse to allow continued use of the current valid dhcp lease info |
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Static IP's are lame! Use Reserved DHCP! |
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antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
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| said by PhReE5:Static IP's are lame! Use Reserved DHCP!
Reserved DHCPs? Where is that in the Linksys stock firmware? I didn't see them. |
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 KyawaPremium
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Middletown, MD | Not available on the WRT54G routers with the Linksys firmware. I have no idea what is so "lame" about statc IPs. |
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