On 16/11/2011 22:56, Christopher Woods (CustomMade) wrote:
Surely if a machine has a fixed static IP, it doesn't even enter into
discussion with the network's DHCP server to request a lease? Just the usual
broadcast traffic...
I'm not a networking or Windows expert, but this presumably
Chris:
Again, I'm not a network guy, so YMMV. My experience has been that
the computer with the static IP address in the DHCP range of the
router will run with no immediate problems, but the DHCP server
will eventually revoke the lease (because nobody asks for it to be
renewed), then assign
The uncommented line in the hosts file is simply:
127.0.0.1 localhost
The default gateway is setup in the Windows IP properties (along with
the other static settings) to be 192.168.0.254, which is our
modem/router/DHCP server. The modem has an external static IP that we
would be connecting
