From: J Leslie Turriff via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:13:02 -0500 I haven't tried anything yet. I would like to keep the same IP addresses as the NetGear router has configured, but the StarLink router is a black box; no user configuration is possible. Leslie What makes you sure of that? Have you tried (e.g.) http://192.168.1.1/ to see what answers? The reason I asked is that when we got AT&T fiber two years ago, and I asked about port forwarding, the sales rep said, "No, you can't do that, you have to configure it through the phone app." The phone app turned out to be useless (she was right the you couldn't configure port forwarding there -- or anything else) but I found a full-featured Web interface at http://192.168.1.254/ that gives me everything I need. ================ Maybe I should have asked a simpler question: If DHCP gets a request from an unknown machine on the local network, does it consult the /etc/hosts file in that machine and try to provide that address? Leslie No; DHCP uses only its own internal configuration database. But, as David said, you can configure it to assign specific addresses to hosts permanently based on their MAC (Ethernet hardware) address. You just have to find the right configuraton page. I find it hard to believe that the Starlink box doesn't have one. Somewhere. -- Bob