On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:46:09 +0200, Florian Gamböck wrote: > On 2017-04-18 20:41, Mick wrote:
> > Assuming you have access to your home's router, you can configure on > > it a static IP address for the MAC address of the Raspi. The home > > router will not allocate any such reserved IP address to any other > > device, but reserve it for the Raspi's MAC address. > That's what I've been doing in the past, but my Cisco router had > problems with that. It tried to give away addresses I have specifically > reserved and it ended up cutting the connections and refusing to let > new machines connect as long as there was a conflict. You should allocate static addresses from outside of the DHCP reserved range. For example, set the DHCP range to 192.168.1.100-200 then allocate static addresses from below there. > Besides, I like having configuration files on my computers, which I can > exchange and adjust as I like, without the need to click through > heavily overloaded router configuration WebApps. If you have an always on computer on your network, I would recommend trying dnsmasq. It has a DHCP server and means you can do all your network configuration in the one place, with simple text config files. -- Neil Bothwick Do you realize how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
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