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I want to be able to force certain bandwidth limitations on specific wireless clients so I need for them to always get the same IP address. The option "Block MAC addresses assigned a static IP that connect from a different IP" is interesting but not quite true DHCP reservation.

There is a non-rooted Android on my network that can only get an IP via DHCP and can't be statically configured, for instance, so my problem is not solved. Is there some kind of way I could just set the DHCP lease time to maybe 0 and then it would let them keep their DHCP lease forever? This is a small home network so there will only be a few devices and the client list will not change often at all. Recommendations? Am I missing something? How do you usually handle making sure bandwidth throttling gets applied to the correct devices, etc? Thanks!

On the DHCP screen you connect an IP address to the MAC address of the device in question using the static leases section. Then you check the box which prevents the device from using any other IP address.

You leave the device in DHCP mode. It will be assigned the IP address you specified.

That is how it works.

Oh, so this page is for DHCP reservations after all, lol! Okay, the wording used was a little confusing. It doesn't say "static leases", it says "Static IPs" which got me thinking it was something other than a DHCP reservation feature. I should be good now, thanks!