[GRLUG] DD-WRT DHCP/IP address problem

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 05:00:20PM -0400, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I have a Buffalo router running DD-WRT. It has a virtual wireless
> interface for guests. It is configured to issue IP addresses like
> 192.168.11.x. It is issuing addresses with the wrong third number
> (192.168.1.x instead of 192.168.11.x). This appears to be a problem with
> multiple android devices. Restarting the router does not fix it.
> Restarting the Android WiFi service and even the device does not fix it.
> I can, sometimes, get a device to obtain a correct IP by connecting to
> the primary network and then back to the guest network.  This is new
> behavior in the last few weeks. The router is a few months old and has
> been working just fine otherwise. Any ideas why it's doing this?

It's no longer just Android clients. I now have a printer getting the
wrong subnet, and it's on the physical network, not the virtual network.
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J-T
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