On Tuesday 27 January 2004 06:55 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Monday 26 January 2004 08:26 pm, marc resnick wrote: > > The linksys is a BEFW11S4, a Wireless-B Broadband Router. I'll try the > > hard reset, and get back to you on that. > > Okay, on that router, on the DHCP tab, there is a starting IP addresses > that allows you to specify the beginning IP address. I would guess that > this is set to 100. There is also a DHCP Clients button, this brings up > the section that allows you to assign a permanent IP address by MAC > address. The reason that you would want to have a permanent IP address is > for port forwarding. When you forward a port, say port 21 to enable an ftp > server, you need to send it to the same machine. The easiest way to do > this is to specify an IP address and make sure that the server always gets > the same IP. If you were previously running servers, then you probably > have at least one or two IP's specified as static. > > Either clear out permanent assignments or make sure that that the assigned > IP falls outside the range of dynamic addresses. So, if the starting > address is 100 and you have allowed 50 users, you can assign either > 192.168.1.151-253 or 192.168.1.2-99.
There is no option to set a permanent IP in the DHCP clients table...
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