DHCP Does Not Look Right- Multiple IP's for Single MAC Address
Multiple IP's for Single MAC Address, this can't be right, anyone else the same
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I’m reading that 192.168.0.116 is the only device assigned a MAC address, the others are available. I presume the output is from the VM app, I don’t/can’t use it as I run in modem mode.
That whole DHCP table looks odd to me, as the last octets are repeated in places. Maybe a pinhole reset would do the Hub the world of good .....
The only other thing I can think of is the Pod is getting one IP, and the rest are devices attached to the Pod? Who knows, I don't use Pods and I certainly wouldn't use the Hub as a Router.
The actual IP is 115, question is, where do the Self Assigned come from ?
That's a TP-Link MAC address for the Smart socket. So assuming it's grabbed a DHCP lease and the Hub is reporting it as "Self Assigned".
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not the only one, most of my devices have multiple IP's assigned according to the router , as this example
In the original post there is a table of IPs, the display format looks quite different to what we see from our VM Hub's Connected items web page.
Exactly what are we looking at ? I.E. What make / model of device displayed that table of information ?I have done a pin reset, and It's cleared up a bit, I only have two devices with multiple IP's, but I am still getting Self Assigned and DHCP, surely they must be one or another
The devices with multiple IP's are not my Mac devices, they are mainly smart sockets
The suggestion is any device may self allocate an IP if the DHCP response is incomplete / not received,
which could be a DHCP server fault or a network cable fault.
When a Window computers fail to get a DHCP response they self allocate in the 169.254.0.0/16 range
which is very obvious as it fails to work on a domestic internet connection.
There are so many smart devices I am assuming there is a network switch involved,
if a smart plug was connected direct to the VM Hub does that work differently ?
