The DHCP reservation feature on the E1200 v2 router is completely broken. There are two major issues with it:
- Whenever you add even one client to the reserved list, it somehow overrides the names of every computer in the "Select Clients from DHCP tables" list with the name of the client in the reserved list. I've attached a picture of the problem below. The circled items are all different computers, but the moment I add "benxiao-ubuntu01" to the reserved list, all the names are overriden with benxiao-ubuntu01.
- I run a machine dual-booted with both Windows and Ubuntu. Whenever I reserve that machine in the DHCP list using Ubuntu, it works fine up until the point I boot into Windows. In Windows, it's able to connect, but the moment I boot back into Ubuntu, it fails to connect. I have to remove the client from the DHCP reserved list to get my machine to connect again.
I can't believe such a glaring bug could make it into a Linksys product. This feature is absolutely important for port forwarding and it is completely unusable. I've already upgraded to the 2.0.06 firmware and it is still showing this behavior.
How do I fix this or when is a updated firmware revision going to be made available. This is a major flaw in this router and makes it **bleep** near unusable for anything except casual web browsing.