topic Re: Turn off DHCP IP assignment for clients? in Nest Wifi

Turn off DHCP IP assignment for clients?

jjgfromnj — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:04:53 GMT

Is it possible to turn off DHCP assignment to clients using Google Wifi, or in the new Nest Pro? And use another device to serve DHCP?

Re: Turn off DHCP IP assignment for clients?

MichaelP — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:44:02 GMT

Hello @jjgfromnj

Officially, no. Unofficially, you can probably get close to being able to do that by limiting the size of the DHCP address pool to a single address. However, that means one device in your network will still likely get assigned that address by Google/Nest WiFi. To make that at least consistent, you'd want to reserve that IP address assignment so that device is always the one that gets it. All of that said, I don't recommend trying to do this in general. Google/Nest WiFi is intended to be easy to use – it may not be as flexible as some users would prefer.

Re: Turn off DHCP IP assignment for clients?

blake85willard — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:09:12 GMT

Hi Michael! I saw your previous comment in a locked thread about google wifi and Nest thermostats not playing well together. I couldn’t message you there because of it being locked. I would love your advice. Thank you so much!

Re: Turn off DHCP IP assignment for clients?

MichaelP — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:05:35 GMT

Hello @blake85willard

Just create a new thread here in the forum with your question. Feel free to tag me using @MichaelP in your initial message and I'll see it. I would recommend editing your message above to remove your personal email address, too – this is a public forum.

Re: Turn off DHCP IP assignment for clients?

Jhonleanmel — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:37:29 GMT

Hey folks,

We appreciate your help here, @MichaelP.
@blake85willard and @jjgfromnj, I wanted to follow up and see if you are still in need of any help. Please let me know if you are still having any concerns or questions from here, as I would be happy to take a closer look and assist you further.

Thanks,
Mel

Re: Turn off DHCP IP assignment for clients?

jjgfromnj — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 23:02:29 GMT

I got an answer - not the answer I wanted, but it answers my question :). Thanks all.

Re: Turn off DHCP IP assignment for clients?

Jhonleanmel — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:51:53 GMT

Hey there,

Awesome — glad to hear that your issue is fixed. It looks like we can consider this one complete, so I will lock the thread shortly unless I can help out with anything else.

Best,
Mel