On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Tom Hosiawa wrote: > > does the router have the ability to assign certain host numbers to > > certain mac addresses? i mean, of couse it has the ability, but can > > you configure how it assigns them (i've never used a linksys)? if so > > you could do that and then write the same information into /etc/hosts. > > not pretty, but it worked for my very static lan. > > I thought of that before, like setting static ip addresses to each > computers, but I've looked around everywhere and don't think thats > possible
Why not? That's the setup I have here, with three computers connected to a D-Link DI-604, on which the DHCP server is disabled.. You just have to tell each machine its IP, gateway, and DNS servers. Not a chore on only 2 or 3 machines. -- Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list