Comments on: Getting DHCP reservations into a Belkin N1 Vision router

By: Adz

Adz — Wed, 05 May 2010 11:56:04 +0000

GAR – If you use Firebug in Firefox, you can change the limit. In the HTML, there is a maxlength property set to 150. Eliminate that and you’ve got no limits.

By: GAR

GAR — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:48:07 +0000

Could someone please let me know how to add many reservations please? The command line seems to be a limited amount of characters which only lets me enter 3 reservations. How do I add more entries into static_dhcp_clients?

By: Adz

Adz — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:48:06 +0000

Thanks for the reply Tom. I’m still trying to figure out a way to get it to work – I’ve changed things around and I’m currently testing port-forwarding to the broadcast address. I’m not certain if I’ve got the address right, but so far, the ARP entry has stayed in the table for 7 minutes (and still counting) after shutdown.
I’ll report back if I get it working successfully.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:14:45 +0000

Hi All,

I am afraid I can’t test it anymore for myself as I no longer use and have the device.
However, ARP entries are always dynamic in nature if you check them from another PC unless you configured them statically on that PC. It’s just the way ARP works.
If static DHCP leases aren’t working any longer the way I originally described it, Belkin might have changed the behaviour in their new firmware. I don’t remember which firmware I ran on the device back then but it might be an older version.

Kind regards,

Tom

By: Adz

Adz — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:31:56 +0000

Hi,
I can’t get it to work either. I’m using the 1.00.16 fw, hardware: F5D8232-4 v1000. I used nvram get static_dhcp_clients which showed that it saved what I entered, but when I check the ARP entries from another computer, it shows as dynamic when on and doesn’t appear when off. Though the DHCP Client List always shows it there now.
Either way, Wake on WAN still doesn’t work for me.

By: Daz

Daz — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:34:21 +0000

Thanks Tom but i can’t even get it to work for 1 client, im wondering if it has anything to do with the firmware im using its the pre release 1.00.16 version.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:47:15 +0000

Hi Daz,

You should be able to enter them all at once. I don’t know if it will work for 9 clients as I didn’t try with that much hosts. I currently don’t use the AP any longer so I can’t try it out.

Kind regards,

Tom

By: Daz

Daz — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:35:30 +0000

Hi all trying to get this working and im entering everything as it says here but no go for me.
Do i need to set each client seperatly or can i do them all at once as when i try to enter all there seems to be not enough space to enter all the text in the command box.
i want to get 9 clients working.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:15:56 +0000

Just got a new PC. How would one clear out the old DHCP reservation that was set using your trick? nvram -set …. etc.?

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:53:52 +0000

Wow!
Thanks for this, you’ve no idea how much pain you’ve saved me! This worked great. Just to clarify and help people, when wanting to set up a linux server (a good example of why you may want a static internal IP), find out your host name, and MAC address, both of which can be found by opening up terminal and typing in “ifconfig” without the quotes.

The stuff after HWaddr is the mac address (you need to take out the colons).
then to find your hostname, just type in “hostname” (without quotes) to give the hostname. Then as said above, on the router page (mine was http://192.168.2.1/wukongjiuwo.html ), type in the first box:

nvram set static_dhcp_clients=hostname:192.168.2.19:0002ABBCCDD:1

(or whatever it is, just edit in your values for hostname, the ip address and the MAC address)
click enter, apply changes, and it should reboot. Looking at the DHCP client list, it will no longer show up, but it will be working on the ip address you specified.

Thanks again!