On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 13:01 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Something I learned recently that might be useful here (or might not) is that there are three ways of assigning IP addresses in the presence of a DHCP server such as the one built into the Linksys routers:
1. Assign a static IP address outside the range allotted to DHCP. 2. Let DHCP assign the address, which might change. 3. Assign a static IP address through DHCP, specifying it in the appropriate section of the router setup screens. This address, unlike #1, will be in the DHCP range.
I hadn't realized that #3 is possible.
The place I worked for I would use it for printers sent to remote offices that needed a static address. I would setup the entry in the DHCP server using the mac address so that a predefined IP address would be assigned. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998