Originally Posted by MJT5282
John,

I strongly suggest you create DHCP IP address reservations for all your Sooloos components, especially your storage devices and Control devices.
Unfortunately, many home 'routers' do not have enough non volatile memory that would allow more than 15-20 or so DHCP reservations to survive a reboot. So you may well find that after a 'router' reboot, some of these reservations are lost and you are back to square one.

Its very easy to set a proper fixed IP in a Sooloos device and as long as the IP chosen is outside the 'routers' DHCP pool (which can be obtained from either the router documentation or router itself) and you don't assign a duplicate IP (so keep a list of fixed IPs) then its a permanent fix unless 'router' is ever changed. As well as preventing devices IPs drifting, it also will prevent the issue that some people have seen whereby a Sooloos device drops off the network after 24 hours as it has lost its IP address due to a periodic DHCP refresh request failing.

I'm not suggesting using fixed IP addresses for all devices, just those devices that are non transient like Sooloos devices.

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