Alas… I haven’t tried that specifically. I’ll have to try tomorrow. DHCP seems to be working fine for all the other devices, though (and there are lots of them :D)
The weird thing is the Tablo jumping by itself through different IP addresses, including some that clearly are not on my network. And the aggravating part is not being able to access the settings or logs on this thing to see what’s going on. E.g. I would really like to understand why a device on my network is connecting to a random IP address elsewhere.
I also found a post from someone who was having a similar issue (Tablo and my Router Disagree About its IP Address), but his network topology was much more twisted than mine. Looks like there something going on that Customer Support had to fix by connecting directly to the Tablo.
We’ll see what they have to say.