I wasn’t sure if this was the best place to post this. A series of events happened and I recently changed up my home network.
One of the larger changes I made was to add a Unifi Cloud gateway gateway ultra.
Right away my biggest challenge is that it does not accurately list all of the client devices that it has given a DHCP lease to.
Has anyone else run into this issue?
I have some IP based security cameras that I have only been able to locate before by looking at my ISP’s dhcp lease list and find the IP.
So right now I have cameras on my network and I have to brute force lookup the IP of them to figure out where they are.
A more minor annoyance is that the network topology map is wrong and that ubiquity switches are not being mapped.
The box from my isp doesn’t support bridge mode. Maybe I am having the double nat problems?
Depending on who you’re with, you can try calling their support and explaining what you’re looking for. I always tell them “I need to disable routing and have my gateway act like a modem. It should give a public IP directly to my router.” This should explain in layman’s to any technician what you’re looking for and they’ll be able to tell you if it can be done. If you’re with a cable or DSL provider, also ask about options to provide your own equipment. This can save you money in the long run, too, if you’re renting the hardware through them at the moment.