I'm going to go against the "flow" here...
I've never used a router to reserve addresses, I set the DHCP range on the router to be relatively small and then use the non DHCP unallocated blocks of addresses for types of devices that I may need to manage... and allocate and configure a fixed IP address for each of those devices... even the SB Players. So for example DHCP Range (x40) 192.168.0.10-50 - For transient devices that do not need to be managed by access via IP address Fixed addresses: Rpi servers (pCP, PiHole, Webserver, OpenVPN server) 192.168.0.81 to 85 Printer (x1) 192.168.0.61 Network switches (x4) 192.168.0.131 to 134 Network Attached Storage (x3) 192.168.0.201 to 203 Wireless APs (x3) 192.168.0.241 to 243 SB Players (x5) 192.168.0.111 to 115 Only have to do it once per device as I introduce and set it up, if/when I change router all I have to do is configure it to have the same IP address, subnet mask and DHCP range as the outgoing router - and all my "managed" devices reappear with their original assigned IP addresses and I always know where each device will be address wise when I need to manage it either via web page, telnet, etc... I've never had an issue setting up or subsequently finding a device using this system, yeah it's old school total control stuff but then I started out before DHCP was introduced to help manage large networks, so it's no big deal for me. Kev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117074 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
