On Monday 24 September 2007, Neil Walker wrote: > Alan E. Davis wrote: > > My QUESTION: I connect two machines at home to a wireless router, with > > my IP number a local one, assigned by the router. Is it reasonable to > > set this up so my main home machine has the same IP number always, so > > I can set up other machines to print over the local wireless net? > > Yes, of course you can. You can either set it up with a static address > in /etc/conf.d/net with something like: > > config_ath0=( "192.168.1.2" ) > routes_ath0=( "default via 192.168.1.1" ) > > substituting whatever is appropriate for your interface and addresses or > you can configure the router to always give the same IP address to the > MAC address of your main machine.
Or you can set it at the router, i.e. assign static IP addresses at the router GUI and run dhcpcd at your different boxen. -- Regards, Mick
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