Arris BGW-320 will not accept valid DHCP/subnet range

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by marshall945 » Wed Oct 05, 2022 9:30 pm
I recently got a new Arris BGW-320 gateway and needed to change the DHCP/subnet range so that I could properly connect with my VPN to work.

Originally had issues getting it changed. But, finally did. However, a day later I discovered that they've started issuing public IP's in the 172.x.x.x. range, and the one I successfully set my network to is actually a public IP address allocation for Microsoft over in the UK. ARGH!!

Being that I didn't want a potential conflict I went ahead and tried to change it again. HOWEVER, I'm getting a big red error message that says

"Address must be on network (172.16.11.0/24)"

This is making no sense to me, and it baffled the tech support rep I called at Sonic (and his supervisor for that matter). He basically kept saying that maybe it was something that AT&T has locked out in the gateway (Sonic is rebranding AT&T fiber in my area so the install and equipment actually came from AT&T). They have definitely locked out the 10.x.x.x range of private IP addresses which is kind of ridiculous. But, I digress.

Can someone please explain what might be the problem here? I'm already off the 196.168.1.1 which was my primary goal, so if I have to live with what I have, so be it. But, I'd rather not if I can.
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