I have a few of these switches (all 8 ports but only 2 strictly identical) under control of an OC200. I have local DNS via OPNSense (ditched my ER-605v1 that was EOL). Lack of local DNS was one of...

@Clive_A , Well, the OP in this thread and the OP in the linked thread both failed to get past ~250. In my reply #9 on the linked thread, I mentioned another thread I had found with that reply from...

@PISD , ER605 can make local network for 500 ip? - Business Community (tp-link.com) Somehow, ER605s seem to have a DHCP hard limit around 250, regardless of the network size...

@Sheep_Dog , I agree with GRL, your understanding of VLANs is incomplete to say the least. The entire point of VLANs is to reuse a single physical network and overlay logical networks (VLANs) on top....

@Sheep_Dog , IP v4 exhaustion is definitely a concern at the global level and NAT is a critical part of addressing it. From the WAN side, the details of the LAN are unknown. Range, number of...

@Clive_A , By the way, I suspect none of these limits are documented (designed for 60-80, hard fail at ~250). I also suspect the failure didn't generate any logs. Wouldn't it be nice if end customers...