Hi Richard,

can't exactly you but I've got a similar problem with a DI-604 wired
4 port router.
Only it never releases and I've been running the same IP addresses on the
corresponding machines for more than a year although it was set to renew
once a week and later on after three days - to no effect it seems.

As good as static - and no, it's not set to static IP.

Even updated firmware recently, also to no effect.

Any tips on this here? Or maybe just to avoid D-link in the future? Would
be a shame though because apart from this my router/modem combination
works really well.
(Yes, I know about the problem with the GPL compliance from D-link but
these were bought way before that in 2003/04.)



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> Hi Richard,
>
> can't exactly you but I've got a similar problem with a DI-604 wired
> 4 port router.
> Only it never releases and I've been running the same IP addresses on the
> corresponding machines for more than a year although it was set to renew
> once a week and later on after three days - to no effect it seems.
>
> As good as static - and no, it's not set to static IP.
>
> Even updated firmware recently, also to no effect.
>
> Any tips on this here? Or maybe just to avoid D-link in the future? Would
> be a shame though because apart from this my router/modem combination
> works really well.
> (Yes, I know about the problem with the GPL compliance from D-link but
> these were bought way before that in 2003/04.)

I din't know about it, or I would have bought another brand -- the price
difference wasn't huge. You get what you pay for I suppose. A pity, it
seems well made, has a good manual, and good web admin interface -- except
for an HTML rendering bug on the page you use most often.

I'll have to see if there is an update, and buy better kit next time if
that doesn't solve it. Actually, I have a second one that I can compare
with when I get back to where it is. I'll report back.

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B. Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> can't exactly you but I've got a similar problem with a DI-604 wired
> 4 port router.
> Only it never releases and I've been running the same IP addresses on the
> corresponding machines for more than a year although it was set to renew
> once a week and later on after three days - to no effect it seems.
>
> As good as static - and no, it's not set to static IP.
>
> Even updated firmware recently, also to no effect.
>
> Any tips on this here? Or maybe just to avoid D-link in the future? Would
> be a shame though because apart from this my router/modem combination
> works really well.
> (Yes, I know about the problem with the GPL compliance from D-link but
> these were bought way before that in 2003/04.)

This is normal. I have 3 dlinks, 2 linksys and a debian box set up as a
DHCP server. They all work this way. So what's the problem.



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> B. Hoffmann wrote:
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> can't exactly you but I've got a similar problem with a DI-604
>> wired
>> 4 port router.
>> Only it never releases and I've been running the same IP addresses on
>> the
>> corresponding machines for more than a year although it was set to renew
>> once a week and later on after three days - to no effect it seems.
>>
>> As good as static - and no, it's not set to static IP.
>>
>> Even updated firmware recently, also to no effect.
>>
>> Any tips on this here? Or maybe just to avoid D-link in the future?
>> Would
>> be a shame though because apart from this my router/modem combination
>> works really well.
>
> This is normal. I have 3 dlinks, 2 linksys and a debian box set up as a
> DHCP server. They all work this way. So what's the problem.
>

I wish mine worked like that. I got it from a box store. Here in Italy.
It'll be very difficult to persuade MediaWorld that it is faulty.

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richard@the-place.net wrote:
> I wish mine worked like that. I got it from a box store. Here in Italy.
> It'll be very difficult to persuade MediaWorld that it is faulty.

I have not looked into how the lease time works, but curious if your
problem might be due to some time of day setting on either your
computer(s) or on the dlink.


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> richard@the-place.net wrote:
> > I wish mine worked like that. I got it from a box store. Here in Italy.
> > It'll be very difficult to persuade MediaWorld that it is faulty.
>
> I have not looked into how the lease time works, but curious if your
> problem might be due to some time of day setting on either your
> computer(s) or on the dlink.

I just checked and the DLink I am talking to had in fact the wrong date
-- I assume it doesn't keep time when unplugged from the power. I
corrected the time and restarted the connection, and received a new
40-second lease.. So it is probably not that.

I have in the meantime also taken the three computers to the location
where the other DLInk is. It was bought some time earlier, and
packaged differently, so may well be from a different batch. It gives
identical leases to the machines. My assumption at the moment is that
the computers are asking for it. Somewhere there is a setting I haven't
found. It is odd, thinking about it, that they would all three show
this as they were set up months or years apart, and from different
media. Maybe it is a DLink feature after all...

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