If I want to change the local IP of mycloud what should I bear in mind as a precaution? Possibility of data loss or loose contact with drive? Off course my local computers will also be in same subnet.
Not a whole lot. Certainly not data loss.
The major caveat is that you might assign it a static address that overlaps with a DHCP allocation pool, potentially resulting in an IP address conflict-- but if you plan your LAN well, that won’t happen either.
Other issues may be having your local NetBIOS name server not catch up to the change in IP address of the MyCloud, so you may have to connect to it by IP address instead of by NetBios name, etc.
If you seriously mess up the manual IP configuration, you can always perform a 40 second reset to restore it to being DHCP driven.
Got it. But I have already DHCP search in MyCloud and Router has a static address assigned to the cloud drive based on MAC address. I guess all I need to do is change the pool of router DHCP and assign static address to cloud within router from the same pool. What if I feed that IP in cloud itself and forget router assigning it?
What are you trying to achieve?
What problem are you trying to fix by changing the IP address?
DHCP assigns IP addresses from a pool of available addresses, configured on the DHCP server. A device pops on the network, uses broadcast address 0.0.0.0, and makes a request to the DHCP server, which then makes a record of the request, the MAC address of the requesting device, and then doles out an IP from its pool to that device.
The mentioned problem happens when a device ALREADY has an address it is statically configured to use, that falls inside the DHCP pool. The DHCP server believes that it is the sole owner of all the numbers in the pool, and does not check to see if any other devices are using an IP before doling it out to a requesting client. This can result in two devices trying to use the same IP address.
The way to handle this, is to configure the DHCP server to have only part of the subnet as its pool-- say x.x.x.1 to x.x.x.128, and use x.x.x.129 through x.x.x.255 for static assigns (assuming you have a lot of devices that you need to give static assigns to)
That way statically assigned devices live outside the DHCP server’s pool, and the devices on the network never conflict.
There is no problem per say just that the scheme is 192.168.0.X and I want to change to 192.168.1.X. Thats it.
Well, you’d make the subnet change at the router; tell the DHCP server what subnet addresses to assign.
If you have set a static IP address on the MyCloud, change it to the new subnet. Or set it to DHCP, and, once the router has assigned the new subnet IP address, go into the router control page and tell it to always use the new IP address for the MyCloud (‘infinite timeout’, ‘always use this address’, etc).
Yes thats what I plan to do. Basically I have not given any address in Cloud. Its enabled for DHCP. Only in the router I need to change the pool of dhcp from 192.168.0.x to 192.168.1.x Also I have mapped the MAC of cloud in router to be assigned a fixed address in 192.168.0.X All I need to change is the !92.168.1.X for cloud where X remains the same.
My NAS has a static IP and my router is set for DHCP pool. I’ve got the option on my router to reserve an address in the pool for a device based on MAC address, so I did that.
I am presently doing the same thing and would be doing the same here after. Only thing I want to change is the series of IP address from 192.168.0.x to 192.168.1.x
Changing the IP range is something you’d do on your router. My advice would be to set the NAS to dynamic IP allocation (gets an address from the DHCP pool), change the address range on the router and then add a static address/reservation for your NAS, that way you’ll ensure you’ll always be able to connect to the NAS, regardless of IP range settings.
Hi,
So I have a network setup with my modem/router providing the DHCP service. I have set it up with a reserved set of static IP’s and a range for the DHCP server to allocate.
I have a hardwired Windows 10 (Ugh!) desktop with a static IP. I have a Windows 10 Surface pro with IP’s allocated out of the pool.
To better integrate the My Passport into the network I’ve turned off the DHCP server in the My Passport. It now takes an IP from the modem/router
According to the little diagram in the management UI when connecting my surface pro to the My Passport it send and receives its Internet traffic via the Passport and Modem/router as I can only have one wireless network connection.
So now my questions. My Desktop computer, also has a wireless dongle. Does it connect to the Passport through the dongle or through the Passports wireless connection to the router?
When I attempt to connect my Android phone to the Passport, because I’ve turned off DHCP it cannot be allocated an IP address and so cannot connect.
To anyone out there are my assumptions correct?
Regards
