If you could be sure you were setting a static IP which was *outside* the range of addresses being handed out by the primary, that should work, however you don't know what the primary settings are, so I guess just experiment. Now if your daily loss of connectivity is indeed due to a failure of the primary to renew the dhcp lease it gave to the secondary, setting static should avoid that problem, however who knows what other daily problems the primary router has? It could be resetting due to power fluctuations on the same ciruit that kick on at that time each day, or possibly some other network traffic jams it up. If you can, try to ensure that the primary device has its latest firmware (shouldn't be any need for custom firmware, just get the latest from the mfg). Well glad I could help. From the looks of this thread's activity, we coulda done this offline, but maybe my explanations will help someone in the archives.... death to "connection not found"!
Ben On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:00 PM, dooger watts <[email protected]> wrote: > Sweet. Can't wait to try this in the morning (when my lease expires). > > From what you describe it sounds as if my secondary IS getting its IP > address automatically from the primary. If I set the IP of the secondary to > a static address of my own, would this lease thing go away--or open up "a > whole 'nother" can of worms? > > Grateful, Ben, > m > > Ben Barrett wrote: > >> If the netmask is set to 255.255.255.0, as is common, then you can only >> change the last digit... to put it simply. >> It would be pretty safe to assume the primary's netmask is indeed that, so >> you'd do well to stay within the 192.168.1.* subnet, >> at least between the bridge and the primary -- you could define your own >> subnet and do dhcp for it on your secondary, bridge, device (at least on the >> wired ports, I know). >> >> _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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