On February 13, 2004 07:20 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > On Friday 13 February 2004 06:56 pm, anton wrote: > > >>Does anyone know if there's a way to make sure you get a certain > > >> IP from the dhcp? My router won't assign IPs by MAC address, nor > > >> will it allow me to surf with a static IP set. I have a Linksys > > >> BEFW11S4 Router. Does anyone know a way around this? > > > > > > Marc; Why not set your PC to a static IP address? That would > > > solve it permanently. > > > > (did he not say he can't use static?, sorry ;-) > > Anyway, if I understand then your router is also your DHCP server? > > Presumably you can log into it to configure it? In any case, what > > it sounds like you need is to log into whatever is assigning you IP > > addresses (router or other box) and set the temporary IP address > > lease time that it gives the machines to a riduculously long time > > period. Or do you? At varsity they have their leases run out after > > about a week, but you can set your DHCP server (or maybe it is done > > from the client machine) to ask if the machine wants its lease > > renewed. If this is set to yes (or if you have a very long lease > > time), then it should automatically reissue a lease for another > > time period. > > I have probably not helped you much! But at least you know it is > > possible! Cheers > > Anton > > > > -=-=- > > ... Windows 98 - the operating system of world records! > > 100 million sold copies, 200 million installed copies, > > 200 billion crashes. > > Yes, I was thinking that. And no, Anton, I meant I can't use a static > as long as my router had the dhcp set to on(or so I thought, read my > other post). > > Thank you for your input. > > Marc
Marc; I'm assuming from your latest post that the router is yours and not being controlled by someone else? If that's the case, you have two options in regards to a static IP address, which , at this point seems to be the quickest fix to your problem. Log into the router with a browser and configure the DHCP server to serve a smaller range of addresses in the subnet ie; 192.168.0.254 to 192.168.0.200, and use a static IP address which is below that range for your system, OR, Shut the router down, set a static IP address on your system, and then restart the router. It should detect that your IP is in use, and therefore will not try to lease out that IP address. You can try this second method if you can't get an IP address in the first place, and then get into the configuration system of the router to alter the DHCP server as mentioned above. If we were talking about a linux server where you could customise the DHCP config file, I'm sure you'd have it fixed by now, but most routers won't let you completely modify the config file without rebuilding the firware ! Sigh! Hope this helps. Lanman -- Registered Linux user #190712 "Smart IT people are staring out the window into the eye of a giant penguin!"
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