Hello cluggers, hope someone can take 5 minutes to give me a hand... I've just installed a two-way satellite modem (because I live way out in the styx and can't get anything else). It includes a DHCP server which I decided to start using; previously everything was static. But I have one machine (my MythTV server) that really needs to keep its static IP address. I have worked out how to 'reserve' it's address on the DHCP server by specifying it's MAC address. I'm not certain it works yet but that's not my problem...
My problem is that the DHCP server hands out addresses in the range 192.168.5.11/254. It's Ethernet interface is 192.168.5.100/255.255.255.0. But I want to leave my server with a static address of 192.168.1.201 (its easier to leave it alone rather than have to shag around with mySQL issues). The result is that the server disappears off the network. I guess it's the '5' in the IP address that's causing the problem... but from my limited understanding, I thought internal address were internal and it should not matter. I guess I can work around the problem by either reconfiguring (or disabling) the DHCP server (but not sure if I might stuff anything else up) or the server (don't really want to face the drama of changing the host of a MythTV server) - so I thought I would ask first: why can't I mix IP addresses like this? tia - David
