I'm trying to reserve two IPs from my home WAN/LAN router, but the interface will not accept my subnet mask entries except for 255.255.255.255. All others give the error: "The IP address and Subnet mask do not match." I think I read something somewhere there is a bug in the firmware.
Using a subnet calculator[1] I arrived at these _working_ WAN settings for 5 IP addresses:
This subnet mask gives me IPs x.x.x.1 to x.x.x.14. Then I try to reserve an IP above the DHCP IP Pool on the Belkin router's "static route" configuration page. This GUI only has the following entry, with an "add" button next to table row:Code:IP Address > 192.168.2.1 Subnet Mask > 255.255.255.240 DHCP Server > On IP Pool Starting Address > 192.168.2.2 IP Pool Ending Address > 192.168.2.6
According to my info, this subnet should work, but it doesn't. The only subnet mast that doesn't give the error above is 255.255.255.255!Code:Network Address > 192.168.2.7 Subnet Mask > 255.255.255.240 Gateway > 192.168.2.1
This has to be a bug.
[1]: wwwDOTsubnet-calculatorDOTcom


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