On Monday 10 October 2005 19:42, Greg Wallace wrote: [...]
I point to the router (192.168.1.1) for both of these. By the way, If all of your machines are using static routing and you haven't somehow got an entry for the machine in the router's configuration table with a different IP address, you shouldn't have to worry. If you start with a clear table in the router and nothing ever asks it for an address, it won't matter if you have the router assigning addresses. However, if you ever add a machine and it asks the router for and address and the router gives it one that you are already using on one of your other machines, you'll have problems. If you want to go strictly with fixed addresses, best to just disable DHCP in the router so you'll never have that problem. Of course, on most routers you can have a combo of the two by setting an exclude range for the machines you have assigned the fixed addresses to so that it never hands those addresses out. Then you could work with a mixed bag of some machines with fixed addresses and some getting their addresses from the router.
In the LinkSys config there's a setting to allow just specific MAC addresses (thus excluding anything that doesn't match), and there IS a setting for "mixed" dhcp and static on the network, but for what you are talking about.... hmmm... ok, there's the option to enable the DHCP server, and a starting IP address, and a "Maximum Number of DHCP Users" setting. That would probably do it. I had my static addresses inside that range. I'll fix that and see what happens. Kevin