Is there a way to set an IP address for the AP7?

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Richard Sun

• February 02, 2025 14:40

Received my AP7’s and at least my wife says she prefers the color of it compared to my Netgears. However I wanted to set a specific IP address for each and when I go into the device to change the settings from dynamic to static, it doesn’t seem to give me the ability to do this. Maybe I’m old fashioned in thinking, but i like to have my network devices a specific range and order as normally i head to the command line to do pings when something doesn’t seem right.

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  Firewalla

  • February 02, 2025 17:41

  Not yet. Your AP7's are fully managed by the controller inside your Firewalla, so it is best leave it DHCP mode, it is a lot more reliable that way.

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  Richard Sun

  • February 02, 2025 17:45

  They would still be 'DHCP' but I would set them to static mode, so that they would always get the same IP address.  I generally always use DHCP and do reservations this way.

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  Adam Carl

  • February 03, 2025 19:04

  Setting an IP reservation would be nice for those of us who like to micro manage our networks.  Thank you

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  Csimet

  • February 07, 2025 03:11

  I looked in the web management portal and was able to set both my AP7s to reserved DHCP addresses... https://my.firewalla.com/#/devices

  No apparent harm in doing so after a few days and several reboots of both the Firewalla Gold and each AP. 

  

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  Andy

  • February 17, 2025 19:09

  Thank you @Csimet for sharing we can reserve DHCP IP's via web GUI.  It does not seem we can do that yet in App GUI.  I also prefer to know what they IP's will be and make rules to block admin access to the devices from not approved of sources.  The other reason I want to do this is I have 5 subnets defined on FW and it is giving out addresses to the AP's (I have 3) from seemingly random subnets that keep changing.  I would like to have an admin or main subnet FW DHCP pulls from for the AP's.

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  Csimet

  • February 17, 2025 23:59

  Mine does the same... keeps switching between network IPs for all three VLANs I have in use and advertised by the AP7s.  Not sure if this is a bug or not, but it does not seem to impact operation.  I reserved the IPs on each network, for each of then two AP7s I have.  I would also like it to stay on the one network I have just for networking devices and not use IPs from the others.  I have access rules for that network (limited allows from the other networks and my VPN network when I'm remote).

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  Troy Dampier

  • March 04, 2025 13:26

  So if you have the MSP interface you can reserve the IP in that. But not the iOS UI :(  Also, it only lets you reserve what it actually gets - and unlike the iOS UI it does not let you set one and reserve it as well.  I asked for this feature in the MSP interface and the iOS interface as reserving and selecting IPs is pretty common requirement.

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