On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]>wrote:
> Is it possible to tell my WRT54G to always serve the same IP address to > a particular device? > > The support group offers two solutions. One is to have the DHCP server > reserve an IP address for the RTV. Can I do that with my WRT54G? > It is offered on my Linksys WRT300N. I seem to recall the lower base models don't have this option. On my Basic Setup screen, there is an entry for "DHCP Server: Enabled or Disabled" and to the right of that is a button labeled "DHCP Reservation." I would not be surprised to find this is missing from your model. > > The other is to change the lease time to longer than a week. I'm not > sure how this helps, but that was what was recommended. I think it has > to do with the RTV rebooting itself more than once a week. But why the > lease duration would make any difference to the RTV when it's DHCP bug > kicks in isn't clear to me. > In my WRT300N interface, the highest I can push my lease time is 9999 minutes, or just shy of 1 week. At least it's better than the default of 1 day. I guess the theory behind this being potentially helpful is that if the router gets a DHCP request from a client that already has an active lease, it will automagically reassign the same IP back to it. This should also be happening when it's within the 1 day window, so I am pretty skeptical that this could help. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
