How do I see my DHCP clients list on my new Airport Extreme AC?

Old question but perhaps this answer may help some others...

When opening the Airport Utility application and clicking once on the Airport Extreme icon, for example, you can already see all connected devices in the popup window. But when you hold down the Alt key and then double click on the Airport Extreme station's icon, you will view more details of these connected devices.

How do I see my DHCP clients list on my new AirPort Extreme AC?

Unfortunately, you can't, since Apple removed this function in AirPort Utility 6.x versions.

The best that you can do is a Wireless Clients List as follows:

Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility

Hold down the option key while you double click on the AirPort Extreme icon

Click the small arrow next to each client to reveall more information about the connection

How do I see my DHCP clients list on my new AirPort Extreme AC?

Unfortunately, you can't, since Apple removed this function in AirPort Utility 6.x versions.

The best that you can do is a Wireless Clients List as follows:

Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility

Hold down the option key while you double click on the AirPort Extreme icon

Click the small arrow next to each client to reveall more information about the connection

The PC version gives me a complete DHCP clients list. I find it rather ironic.

That is correct and for Macs that can support running version 5.x of the AirPort Utility that is true as well.

Where the PC version gives you the entire DHCP client list? I could not find it.

regards

DHCP Clients is located next to Wireless Clients.

If you do not see a DHCP Clients tab, then your Apple device is in Bridge Mode. It is not handing out IP addresses....another device on the network is performing that function. If that is the case, you will only see Wireless Clients displayed.

Thanks Bobs, I found here. The Apple support was not able to answer it 😢.

To help others, in order to reach the client list, you need to

- Manual Setup

- Advanced

- Log and Statistics

- Then you have the above picture.

Thanks again

It is simpler to click Manual Setup, then click directly on Wireless Clients on the Summary Page that appears. 😉

This will take you directly where you want to go.

Thanks for this information it has been helpful.

Note that on my AirPort Extreme the steps above only yield the wireless clients under the DHCP Clients tab. I'm running 5.6.1 Airport Utility on a PC..... none of my wired clients are showing up.

Any ideas how to get a comprehensive list?

If you are running AirPort Utility 5.6.1 and the tab for DHCP Clients does not appear next to Wireless Clients, this indicates that you have the AirPort Extreme configured to operate in Bridge Mode.

You can verify this by clicking the Internet icon at the top of the screen, then clicking the Internet Connection tab just below the icon.

You will see that the setting for Connection Sharing is set to "Off (Bridge Mode)" on your AirPort, as in the example below:

That means that you have another modem/router or gateway device that is handling the DHCP assignments for all clients on the network....and you will need to get into the logs of the modem/router or gateway to see the complete list of DHCP Clients.

Here is my setup:

And the DHCP client list:

The IP address of the system I am currently using is not in the list, nor are any of the other wired devices...

I wouldn't be surprised if I simply missed something as I'm not a networking guru....

Thanks again for the time and input on this very good subject!

It appears that you are using AirPort Utility on a PC...and I don't have one here to test.

My DHCP List shows all devices....both wired and wireless. If yours does not, then I do not know why.

The IP address of the system I am currently using is not in the list,

I do not know what you are referring to here when you say IP address of the system.

If you close AirPort Utility and then open it again, the Summary page will indicate what your Public IP address is and what network IP address the AirPort is using. That IP address will be 10.0.1.1 unless you have changed the IP address range.

Yes, I was working on the PC side and unfortunately on the Mac side of my system I'm running AirPort Utility v6.3.1 which as you state above does not allow this functionality.

Regarding

The IP address of the system I am currently using is not in the list,

I was referring to the DHCP address provided to this system (wired LAN connection to AirPort Extreme). The IP address does not show up in the list of DHCP clients on that tab and thus the root of the issue....on the PC side that is.

FWIW, I've placed an enhancement request to the AirPort team so hopefully at some point in the future this will be added.

Bob, thanks again for the exchange, I really appreciate your time and willingness to discuss. Have a great day and a Happy New Year!

Best regards,

Joe

I was referring to the DHCP address provided to this system (wired LAN connection to AirPort Extreme).

That would normally show up on the Summary page in AirPort Utility. Look for IP address at the bottom of the list of settings on that page.

But, if you have the AirPort base station connected to your LAN....and you also have the AirPort set up to handle DHCP and NAT....you are running a Double NAT error on the network, which can cause communication errors. That may be why you do not "see" all of the devices that you think you should, since the NAT firewall is not allowing all traffic through.

Best to run the AirPort in Bridge Mode if you have another router "upstream" on the network.