Hello,

I am trying to find a way to actually "reserve" IP addresses so that they're not passed onto clients when given out by the DHCP. I know you can reserve them for acquired devices by their MAC address, but this is something I do not want to do (except to some devices).

I'm looking at a way to block the IP address range so they cannot be used, but I can't seem to find a way to actually do this.

Having a VLAN network setup may be an ideal resolution to this, but at the moment I do not have a Smart Switch to configure the ports with and I've tried having this setup directly with the router but it didn't seem to work properly, so I had to abandon this until I can get a Smart Switch where I can then easily manage the VLAN network.

I just think for the time being that I'd want something in place to prevent the IP address range that I want to be available but not given to clients unless reserved manually by adding it to the reservation list.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Ben