On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Hugh Gundersen wrote:
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................!
Here's a link that might help with subnet addressing
strategies. Link and quoted selections from the page:
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<http://www.emergecore.com/support/HOWTO/dhcp/HOWTOindex2.php>
How To Configure DHCP to Issue Static IP Addresses
"While most devices on your network such as Workstation
Computers and Laptops receive their IP addresses dynamically
via DHCP, certain devices must have an IP address that never
changes. You can configure the DHCP server on the IT-100 to
issue those devices a permanent, static (never changing) IP
address. Devices needing a static address are usually stable
resources on your network that your users need to access often
and for a long period of time. Such devices include servers,
switches, routers, and network printers. If these devices
received their IP addresses dynamically instead of statically,
their IP addresses would periodically change and computers on
your network might attempt to contact them using an IP that had
expired. While you could manually assign static IP addresses to
these devices one at a time, you can administer your static
addresses more efficiently using the IT-100. You will need to
know the MAC address of each device you want to receive a
static address from the IT-100."
"IMPORTANT: You must use IP addresses for static assignments
that are not being used elsewhere such as in your DHCP Dynamic
Pool or your VPN Pool. They must not also have been assigned to
a device manually. If you do use an IP address in more than one
pool, you will create a communications conflict on your network
and one or more devices will not be able to connect"
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The directions are for another router model, but the concept is
the same as far as not overlapping the various address pools or
types. Static, dhcp, and reserved address types (along with a
few others) can co-exist on the lan as long as they are kept in
distinct groupings with no overlap between them.
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