At 06/18/2006, Wayne Johnson wrote:
Yes Gary, whenever I manually setup I turn off the DHCP...In the
past if I left a few NICs on automatic...I've always had problems
with some NICs keeping their ip address.
As long as the static addresses are not part of the dynamic address
pool, it shouldn't cause a problem. I think I mentioned a friend's
game server that he keeps on static IP while the rest of his LAN is
dynamic. We figured out the game server needs to be a high numbered
IP, but until Andy pointed out the reason, we didn't understand
why. <lol> My WAP also has a static IP (its default setting), but
it is not part of the router's pool, either. My other machines get
dynamic assignments.
If you have a computer set to static and it is using an IP that is in
the router's dynamic pool, it can definitely cause problems. Like
when that computer is turned off, the router may assign its IP to
another computer. Then, when the computer with the static IP is
turned back on, a collision occurs.
Hugh, the problem you've been having is definitely because you are
using a static IP that the router has available for dynamic
assignment. If you now have your router set up to dynamically assign
IPs in the range 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.6 then you MUST give your
ftp server a static IP of 192.168.0.7 or higher. While you've
obviously gone an extended period of time with each of your computers
keeping the same IP, you've also seen that they can change. That's
just part of how dynamic IP assignment works; the order the machines
are turned on, as well as lease renewal, can affect which computer
gets which IP when.
Even though you have set up your router to use .2 - .6, that only
means that those IPs are the ones available for dynamic
assignment. It does NOT mean that addresses .7 - .255 are not
available. It means those are the addresses that should be used for
static assignment.
HTH.
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Tony Lowe, The HapMaster
What if the hokey-pokey really is what it's all about?
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