LAN interface and DHCP issues, phone it taking the LAN IP.
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@johnpoz Or maybe some device involved still has a /24 mask? We expanded a network once a while back and had a few straggling printers and other things that needed updating. It helped in our specific case that we left all the static stuff on the original /24 and moved DHCP to the added-on bits.
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@SteveITS exactly - and I agree mismatched masks can cause you all sorts problems. I have mentioned that a few times now ;)
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@johnpoz Well I just looked and this is NOT check marked, so I'll turn that on and maybe that will fix the issue as well. Funny thing is, it all worked and discovered fine until the /23 change so I assumed that was the issue.
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@SteveITS Yeah we found some printers didn't work right after the expansion as well. SO maybe they were holding onto the wrong subnet. We even went as far as to put some computers on static IPs to get the printers to work. I assumed if we deleted the DHCP Leases and rebooted the machines, they would be fine. But we had a lot of static IPs so maybe some of those hung onto the old settings. I've expanded 2 networks this year, but never before in my 20+ years of IT have I ever done that. But it's going to happen more and more I think with all the devices we have nowadays.
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@canadianllama printers are many times set on the device, so yeah everyone one of those would have to be touched. Your need to change the mask is why you shouldn't set stuff static on the device ;) Just set a reservation for something that needs a specific IP. Then edit the reservation.
We ran into a printer issue one time that had nothing to do with the mask on the network - the customer had set printers as static - but never set a gateway. Had been relying on proxy arp that there old 6509 default to having on. When we were changing that to a nexus setup - proxy arp was no longer on by default. As temp fix we turned it on - but told them they needed to set gateways on printers.. And also to change the mask - they had been using a /16 for their printer segment <rolleyes>, They had at most maybe a 100 printers in the building..
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@johnpoz We do prefer doing static IPs on the router and mostly do it that way. We aren't full-time tech,s so sometimes the client does whatever they want as well.
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@johnpoz We spent 6 hours trying to get this to work 2 nights ago. Anytime we changed the LAN Interface IP to 10.0.14.1, all our UNIFI equipment went to 192.168.1.20 IP range, and stopped working. rebooting, resetting and re-adding them to the cloud key, clearing DHCP reservations. I tried pretty much everything I could think of. We even tried giving the LAN Interface 10.0.15.254 IP to keep it in the old range, but that didn't work either.
It's possible something in the cloud key isn't getting updated... I'm not sure how that works with the network gear getting the IP from the router, but then talking to the controller.
Anyways, we are going to set up a test environment and work more on it.
Thanks for all your guys insights.
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@canadianllama Do you mean DHCP reservations? Yeah we started doing that at some point, after a Windows 10 feature update helpfully removed static IPs by creating a new NIC. That was annoying.
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@canadianllama is your unifi gear set to static now? Or just dhcp, or a reservation? I believe the cloudkey default fall back IP is 192.168.1.30 - did you mean that vs .20?
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Note: The default fallback IP address of the UniFi Cloud Key is 192.168.1.30.
Why don't you just set your laptop to a 192.168.1.x IP and connect to it and change it to a static IP that you want to use on your new 192.168.14/23 network
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@johnpoz Yes we have them as static DHCP reservation on the router. But I removed them from that when we tried to fix this issue.
All the devices (WAPs and network switches) went to the IP of 192.168.1.20... every single one of them. (We could see that on the cloud key, so we still had cloud key access somehow, but basically the entire network went down and just stopped working). We can try set the cloudkey IP static on the device, ill look into doing that.Im assuming the unifi devices talk to the router first to get their IP's, then talk to the cloudkey for other stuff, as you can run the equipment without the cloudkey.
We are setting up a test lab today so hopefully can figure it out.
