On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:31:22 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
>
>--
>Tony Lowe, The HapMaster
>What if the hokey-pokey really is what it's all about?
Thanks Tony
The help and advice from Linksys is blurred on this subject. If they
only spoke english (whatever flavour) and not tried to sacrifice space
for content.
I'll try this - NO I'll do this................!
Thanks again.
Sir Hugh of Bognor
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