I'm no techy, but even I know that you can setup DHCP and still use static IPs where you want. Just setup the DHCP range outside the range of the static IPs. IMO this will make your life much easier.
Howard Passman;311122 Wrote: > Hi Mike, > > When forced to, I let the Linksys router hand out DHCP. As I > mentioned, I don't really like to use DHCP for ease of use reasons. We > have 22 devices on our home network and it's just easier to hand out > (static) IP's. At some point I did turn DHCP on because I could not > get the choice of putting in an address. When I did, I "reserved" ip > addresses for the three MAC address of the SB devices. Some of the > Linksys routers allow you to associate MAC addresses with IP addresses. > Thinking back I may have turned it off again after I got off the phone > with tech support and that may be why I finally got the option to > statically address the receivers. > > When I bought the DUET I wasn't sure how to get the PIN number. Almost > the first thing tech support has you do is use DHCP to address the > controller. Then, when I received the second receiver and wanted to > use the receivers as access points, I called to try and get help on > that. Again, the support guy insisted I turn DHCP on. Now that I know > that if no DHCP service is available that it will ask for a staic > address, then that should make things easier. > > Looking back the entire DHCP mess started with the fact that you can't > statically address the controller, which is not what the instructions > say and the way I wanted to do it. On my first call to support I was > told that that was a mistake and that I could not assign an address to > the controller. Hence DHCP got involved. > > I hope this helps. > > Howard -- lanierb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lanierb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5566 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48750 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
