donmacn wrote: > Obviously static IPs are set up with DHCP temporarily disabled on the > router. Would it be the case that, as soon as you try to reconnect the > Touch to the network when DHCP has been re-enabled, that it would > default to a dynamic address? > > Knowing next to nothing about how things work, if a static device had > disconnected, and was being reconnected, I'd have expected the router to > 'say': "OK, I know this MAC address, it should get this static IP > address." That just doesn't seem to be working consistently. > > In that case, I'd have thought that once a MAC/static IP address had > been set up in the router, that it wouldn't matter whether you did a > factory reset of the Touch?
There are two ways of setting up a "static" address. The first one involves configuring the Touch with a fixed address (this gives you a real static address), but you must not re-enable DHCP on the Touch, and you must select an addres that is not part of the router DHCP pool, but still part of the address space the router lets through and routes. The other way involves using DHCP, but configuring the router to always give out the same address. In this method, the Touch gets a dynamic address, but the router ensures it is always the same one. The router does not listen to all network traffic to keep track of which addresses are in use unless it is addresses it itself has given out using DHCP. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101601 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
