[lug] TP-Link Router Q.

[D. Stimits]

This definitely sounds like what was probably going on (I spent a lot of time rebooting and going through menus over and over...I can imagine that it was at lease renewal time it showed up again). On the other hand, it is a default install (updated though). So I don't know how I'd get access for editing files. Is this a case of having to install the o/s from a source other than the default o/s? Or is there some secret, e.g., a serial port?

> On May 6, 2019 at 6:22 PM Stephen Queen <svqueen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     Years ago I was running into similar problems on a number of routers (openwrt). I can't remember the exact details, but it had to do with the file buried in /var that kept track of assigned ip address. When the lease on the address expired, then the address could be re-assigned.  I could also go into the file with an editor, and delete the entry, and if memory surves me correctly, I had to restart the dhcp server.
> 
>     On Mon, May 6, 2019, 2:57 PM D. Stimits < stimits at comcast.net mailto:stimits at comcast.net > wrote:
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>         > > 
> >         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 mailto:stimits at comcast.net > wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >             Hi,
> > > 
> > > 
> > >             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.
> > > 
> > > 
> > >             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.
> > > 
> > > 
> > >             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).
> > > 
> > > 
> > >             It claims (the European spelling "conflictes" is actually spelled that way in the error message):
> > > 
> > >             Error code: 20010
> > > 
> > >             The entry conflictes with the existing reserved addresses.
> > > 
> > > 
> > >             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?
> > > 
> > > 
> > >             Thanks!
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