Do you have the dns set up in /etc/hosts? (I think that's the guy they go in)
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 24, 2010, at 13:28, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Bill Barry wrote: > >> It's your time, but DHCP was invented to take care of all of this for you. >> If you then still want static IP addresses you can tell the router which >> MAC addresses to assign which IP addresses and all is done. > > Bill, > > I've 4 hosts on the network and static IPs have worked well for us. I > don't understand how DHCP will fix this current issue. Using the static IP > addresses the laptop can see all the internal hosts, including the gateway > router. If the wireless AP dhcp server assigns the same static IP address to > the laptop how does that allow it to get outside when it now cannot? > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug