I have multiple (but significant less than 128) devices such as Light switches, thermostat, cameras, etc to which I assigned IP based on their MAC address. So far so good until yesterday when I tried to add a new camera. It appears that this camera would not accept the IP I assigned so the router turned around and assigned a totally different address.
My question is: Under what circumstances would this manual assignment fail and why would the router simply assign another address without generating an error??
My question is: Under what circumstances would this manual assignment fail and why would the router simply assign another address without generating an error??