All routers run DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) to automatically
give devices an IP address. Devices are usually set to 'use DHCP' so they
use the IP address given by the router.
Routers will provide for one of two methods of fixing IP addresses.
The simplest (to understand) is to
On 29 March 2015 at 23:29, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi
Just a minor question about local networking
I routinely have a number of different devices connected to my home network
such as Ubuntu laptops, iPad, Android phone, Kindle, RPi and so on. The
router allocates
On 29 March 2015 at 23:40, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
Depends on the router. Some have the ability to tie an IP address to a
specific device MAC address. I do this to force my home server and
phones to have specific IPs.
You should be running something other thn the default router
On 29/03/15 23:29, Nigel Verity wrote:
Hi
Just a minor question about local networking
I routinely have a number of different devices connected to my home network
such as Ubuntu laptops, iPad, Android phone, Kindle, RPi and so on. The
router allocates local IP addresses to them as
On 29 March 2015 at 23:29, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
Is it normally possible to set a general purpose router to recognise a given
device and always allocate the same local IP address to it?
Depends on the router. Some have the ability to tie an IP address to a
specific
Hi
Just a minor question about local networking
I routinely have a number of different devices connected to my home network
such as Ubuntu laptops, iPad, Android phone, Kindle, RPi and so on. The router
allocates local IP addresses to them as and when they connect. Although those
IP
