On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 11:51 +0000, Clive A Wills wrote: > Hi all > Hope you all had a very good Christmas and not too 'stuffed', wish you a > very happy and hopefully prosperous New Year. > ... > > The network contains: > 1 desktop PC (Ubuntu 10.10) > 2 laptops - Ubuntu 11.10 and old Windows XP( which will be replaced with > Linux) .... > Talktalk will not give a fixed IP address to the router which is > switched off to reset connection every 2 months at midnight. > Any other info required please ask. > Happy to help sometime soon.
The IP address given to the router by TT is immaterial. You may want to fix the DNS server addresses in the router, but mine are not and are left to the ISP to look after. What you do need is a fixed IP address for your router in your internal network, and if possible, can you fix the IP addresses for your printers. For instance, as I never expect more than a four or five machines on my home network, I have the router set to 192.168.1.1, the fixed Lan PC set to 192.168.1.5, and a DHCP range of 192.168.1.2 -- 192.168.1.6, with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.248, which allows only 6 connections. Talk soon, Happy New year. Peter > Any takers? -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, second Tuesday 2012-01-10 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
