Hello, Some time back I bought a logitch squeezebox, and installed the slim server software onto my mac. Great. Its a fun little device, works great except for my wireless internet and router setup.
Here is the issue. My wifi router is in one room, the squeezebox is in another. The mac is hard-wired to one of the ethernet ports on the router (which is a Linksys BEFW11S4, FWIW, bought may 2002). I have to set up the squeezebox to find the server at some ip address - the address of the computer it resides on. The problem is that any time that my mac is restarted, etc., and takes a new lease on an IP address, the actual address is subject to change. Sometimes it is 192.168.1.100, sometimes .103, sometimes even .110. I have a number of other computers that go on and off from time to time and use the intermediate IP addresses. So, I was hoping to set static IP addresses to the wired connections on the router, so that if the mac is plugged into connection #1, DHCP will always give it IP address 'N'. But the linksys instructions do not explain if this is possible or doable. So then I try to set up my mac such that it uses DHCP with a manual IP address. I set the IP address outside of the DHCP realm (the router is set to start dhcp addresses at 192.168.1.100), I set it to 192.168.1.50. It works until the computer is restarted, when it takes a different IP address given to it by DHCP. If I set the manual IP address within the realm of what DHCP is set to give out on the router, i.e. above .100, it does the same thing. If I set it up on the computer to totally work manually, and put in ip address, subnet mask and router IP address, nothing ever works, I cant get onto the internet. So right now Im stuck manually finding the current IP address of my mac, turning on my squeezebox, manually re-entering all of the WEP keys, etc. EVERY time I want to use the device. Total pain in the butt. So, how can I set up the mac/router combo such that the mac always has the same IP address, and that nothing changes the networking settings that I have? Thanks, JMH -- JHZR2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JHZR2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42779 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
