In my router a Netgear I was able to assign a fixed address to the mac address of the Squeezebox. I'm not sure if your router has that ability or not.
Pat On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:56:09 -0800, EmuBite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Slim Devices Community. > > I'm a proud owner of a Squeezebox 2. My wife bought me the SB2 for my > birthday this year. Don't know how I lived without one. > > I control my SB2 using my laptop (Apple PowerBook) in my living room. > My Slimserver is an XP machine in my office. I have other devices on > my network, and DHCP is the easiest way to assign IPs. Problem is my > Slimserver machine every once in a while changes IP addresses, and I'm > forced to change the address of my Slimserver bookmark on my laptop. > (FYI, I'm using a Linksys WRT54GS router....) > > Is it possible to bookmark my Slimserver using some sort of ".local" > convention? I've tried my laptop's name followed by .local, but no > dice (i.e., http://teletran-1.local:9000). Is there something I'm > missing? I know I could just assign all of my devices static IPs, but > I thought I'd try and easier method first. > > Thanks for a great product and helpful community. > MR > > > -- > EmuBite > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > EmuBite's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2449 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18470 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
