[lug] TP-Link Router Q.

[D. Stimits]

Just to add to the mystery, after a few reboots of the router the reserved address showed up again from where I originally deleted it. I deleted the address binding to the old MAC yet again...and this time it stuck and I was able to assign the new MAC to the old address. I'm not sure, but I had saved configuration as a starting point before wiping the router...and it may be this config save caused the "ghost" old MAC binding to show up again.

> On May 6, 2019 at 2:13 PM "D. Stimits" <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:
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>     Hi,
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>     My internet searches have been fruitless on this topic (the router docs only say how it should work, but don't take into account that it is broken), but I know a lot of people here have worked with the TP-Link routers, so maybe someone here has run into this issue.
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>     I just had to replace a network card going to a TP-Link TL-WR940N. The old NIC was bound by MAC address and the IP was reserved to that MAC address. So I wanted to bind the new MAC address to that old reserved IP address.
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>     I deleted the original entry, including both MAC binding and reserved IP. I rebooted. Now I'm trying to add the new MAC to the old IP (which I see is no longer reserved or bound). The only trouble is that it refuses the old IP because it says the IP is in conflict with an already reserved IP. I have found no method to change this and I did in fact delete the old IP reservation. The IP it claims is still in existence is not (so far as I can tell).
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>     It claims (the European spelling "conflictes" is actually spelled that way in the error message):
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>     Error code: 20010
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>     The entry conflictes with the existing reserved addresses.
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>     I have about 10 MACs and a number of rules already set up and I really don't want to wipe the entire router and start over from scratch. Does anyone here know if there is a way to force the reserved address to be given up so I can bind it again without resetting the entire router? Is wiping the entire setup the only way to assign a new MAC to an old reserved IP?
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> 
>     Thanks!
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