DHCP IP Address Conflicts on Reboot
DHCP IP Address Conflicts on Reboot

I recently upgraded from an ER605 v2 to ER7206 v 2.26. I removed the ER605 and adopted the ER7206. Router is setup with a 192.168.1.1/24 (default) and 192.168.2.1/24 (IoT network) interfaces. DHCP assignments are 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.254 and 192.168.2.100 - 192.168.2.254, respectively.
On reboot, I am getting about 10 - 15 IP address conflicts: An IP conflict detected. Warning. Router client[MAC Address] client[Mac Address] used conflicted ip: 192.168.1.102.
I don't have a second DHCP server on my network. I wasn't getting these errors on the ER605.
Any ideas what's going on? Is it possible I didn't do the migration correctly? I know I had a few areas in my initial migration where the WAN port was defaulting to the SFP/WAN1 when my WAN port was actually WAN2. I updated the config and things seemed to work fine. Outside of that, the migration appeared to go smoothly without error.
Any help would be very apprecated!
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These warnings are coming wireless devices. Here are two examples:
1) Conflict between a Macbook Air (connected to EAP_1) and an iPad (connected to EAP_2)
2) Conflict between an iPhone (connected to EAP_3) and an unknown MAC ID (suspect an iPhone) (connected to EAP_2).
What is interesting is that they are on different TP-Link EAPs (EAP650s).
I tried setting my lease to 2 hours and then also to 7 days. Either option didn't seem to make an impact on the problem.
That does not make too much difference to me. These pictures are generic config. I don't find anything wrong with them.
I want to know if you simplify your network, will this error disappear? Remove other devices and keep the AP and the router, and monitor if this persists.
A diagram of your network is required.
A screenshot of your DHCP reservation page.
Does it only happen to certain devices? Or everything is randomly getting the same IP?
What's the network config like on affected devices? I want to learn about it.
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After a lot of reasearch, I determined this was a result of a few smart TVs that were holding on to their IP leases and not requesting a new IP from the server even after their lease was up. No problem with the router or setup. I forced an IP renewal on these TVs and it solved the problem. Thank you for all your help!
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