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From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 12:44
At 09:31 PM 6/18/2006, Tony Lowe typed:
As long as the static addresses are not part of the dynamic address pool,
it shouldn't cause a problem.
I sure wish some one had explained it that way before. Even now my Linksys
WRT54G has the latest firmware & I've even resorted to reading the
destructions & no where do I see "dynamic address pool". I see "DHCP
Server : Enable/Disable", "Starting IP Address : 192.168.1. 100",
"Maximum Number of DHCP Users: 50". While what you say makes sense I've
seen on my LAN & others with ip # 's such as 192.168.1.2 get messed up
even if the DHCP Server is enabled with a starting address of
192.168.1.100 & a Max of 50. According to you that shouldn't happen. I
wonder if the router's ip address shouldn't be within that range as well.
I also wonder if having a 9x machine on the LAN doesn't affect things as I
know that network performance is greatly enhanced if one uses WINS
resolution on the 9x machine's NIC.
FWIW I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] & have it in my desktop shortcuts to other machines
that include that machine's IP address along with the pwd so I can just
click & be logged into another machine. Yes, I have the [EMAIL PROTECTED] server
running on startup of those machines. This is just an example of why I
wouldn't want their ip addresses changing & of course YMMV.
When you setup your router to be a DHCP server and define the Starting IP
address and number of users, that is the only range of addresses that will
be assigned dynamically. Some routers have the capability to reserve IP
addreses within that range by assigning them to a particular MAC address.
You can then setup those machines with the same static IP or just leave it
setup dynamically and the router will assign the reserved IP. If your router
doesn't have that capability then you must assign static addresses outside
the DHCP range. THe existence of a 9x machine on the LAN shouldn't have an
effect, as WINS has nothing to do with DHCP only with name resolution.
For your [EMAIL PROTECTED] use on your local LAN using the machine name rather than
the IP address would be a more flexible way to use it.
Finally, if it is all too confusing and frustrating and you only have a
handful of PCs to manage, just disable DHCP on the router and assign
everything statically and use local host files for name resolution.
Regards,
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Rick Cogan from Melbourne, FL
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