Weird fixed IP address thing

Posted by: hungryhalibut on 05 January 2015

Before the recent firmware upgrade, I was running my SuperUniti with a fixed IP address. Unbeknown to me, until today, the upgrade resets to factory settings, which means DHCP. So I switched to non-DHCP and it wouldn't work. I checked the list of fixed IPs in the router table to ensure the one I was trying to use was right, and it was.

It turned out that the network menu was showing the wrong gateway and DNS setting, even though the correct numbers show under the factory settings menu. Once these were changed, it was happy again. It seems very odd that the Super shows different addresses in different places.

It's all sorted now, after some head scratching. I wonder if anyone else has found this.

Posted on: 05 January 2015 by DavidDever

After the 4.1 update, might they be set to production testing defaults...?

Posted on: 05 January 2015 by Mike-B

I have my broadband hub set to use a fixed (static) IP address for each of the NDX & NAS unchanging MAC addresses. The NDX & NAS are left on DHCP & irrespective of upgrades, reboots & restart of the wireless hub, it always discovers the individual devices very quickly via the never changing MAC address.

Posted on: 06 January 2015 by Simon-in-Suffolk

HH I would say nothing unusual. Doing a firmware update tends to invalidate any previous settings you may have had, at least they cant be relied upon if you have set them to anything other than default.

Simon