Lan Barnes wrote:
On Sat, September 8, 2007 9:52 am, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Lan Barnes wrote:
On Sat, September 8, 2007 8:44 am, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Lan Barnes wrote:
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I just had a hot flash on the Vista issue. M$ likes DHCP and seems to
reset itself. I like static IPs because DHCP seems like foo foo on a
small
home network.
Maybe if I can configure the d-link to serve dhcp in a range of
addresses
and keep my static IPs out of that range, I can let M$ be M$.
RE static IPs on wireless: I haven't played with that. Seems it should
work either way, but you still have to "associate" and deal with
authentication. It may be easier to accept the package deal that, I
think, is kind-of assumed by portable computers. You probably want to
make your son's computer as conventional as possible, I suspect.
You could bring in your dlink, if you think there might be difficulty in
configuring it.
Regards,
..jim
Na, it was a breeze. It's now serving x.x.x.200-x.x.x.250. I can have 51
of my closest and dearest friends (or KPLUG ;) over for a wireless bash.
See ya in 1/2 an hour. We gonna have fun!
Using DHCP to assign a static address is the way
I do it and it helps simplify connectivity for
any M$ clients on the network.
Most, as I recall, routers and all of the 3rd
party router firmware replacements allow you to
map a static IP address to a MAC address. What
this does is (truly) lets you "zero" or "one
time" configure the M$ client to ask for an
address via DHCP and makes your router dish out
the exact same IP address every single time it
gets a request from a client with the given MAC
address. So for example, every time my laptop
(wired IF) asks for an address the router gives
it the address 192.168.x.22 and every time my
laptop (wireless IF) asks for an address the
router gives it the address 192.168.x.122.
Everything node on my network is set up in this
fashion. The big advantage for fixed address
clients via DHCP is everything is configured in
one place. If someone comes by to visit with a
client I can either let them connect wired (then
they get a DHCP address from the standard DHCP
range) or I can quickly add a MAC-to-IP number
map in the DHCP configuration to give them a
fixed IP.
HTH!
rbw
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