James Eshelman [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Joe, *>You can use both port forwarding and DHCP on those routers in some cases. I
On all of the linksys DSL routers, NAT/port forwarding and DHCP are standard features. On some of the newer models you get more granularity..and some of these are also passed to the older models via the firmware updates. Some of the forwarding features are a bit harder to configure and sometimes when I'm bored I will scan the copper sewer I'm attached to and note a lot of people are better at openining ports than at closing them. *>the DHCP range to my web server so that it will always get port 80 and my *>laptop and other machines can pick up any remaining DHCP address. You could *>probably even extend this to multiple machines by attaching them to the net *>in a known order if they stay on 24x7. In fact, some DHCP servers will hold *>an unused address for a while and reassign to the same client when it comes *>back on line--I found this to be the case with the server in Win2K within a *>period of 2-3 days on a net of 20-30 machines. Don't know about Linksys, *>tho. Why are you doing that? The D in DHCP is for Dynamic..if you want/need static IPs then make them static since that seems like way too much work Also, if you use what was RoadRunner, then Mediaone, then ATT and now I don't even know what it's called you get a /29 or a /30 iirc with the 'home networking' package...but I don't remember if that's still available or not since I think it has been nearly 5 years now that I've had cable modem accessr,but with that you get a small range of IPs that are yours and they can, as I recall, attach the MAC to one of those IPs which sure beats IP roulette :) e.
