On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Mike Connors <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Alas, Wes is correct. I don't find "DHCP Reservation" in my WRT54G >> > administration browser interface. >> > >> >> I have never seen a router that does not allow you to assign a static IP >> addresses to a MAC address. Sometimes they hide it really well, but they >> all had that feature somewhere. >> What firmware do you have in this router? Do you have the firmware that >> came with the router? If so which version of the WRT54G do you have? >> >> Bill >> >> A static ip address assignment and a DHCP reservation are two different >> things. With the DHCP reservation you're still relying on the DHCP protocol >> on the LAN for ip address assignment, but you're reserving specific DHCP >> client ip addresses within the assigned DHCP client range for specific >> devices. > > > You can assign static ip addresses in the WRT54G but then you have to > manually configure all the devices with static ip addrs. Not a terribly > difficult or time consuming task for a few computers and a printer. > *Correction* - I confused static WAN ip addrs with static LAN ip addrs. If you get a static WAN ip addrs from your ISP you can configure it in the WRT54G. You wouldn't need to do this for LAN ip addrs as you just configure the static ip addrs on the same LAN ip subnet. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
