Static IP's are set at each computer. If you want to reserve DHCP address in your DHCP server (which I assume is your router), you would use the MAC address to specify what MAC address gets what IP. MAC address's are unique Hex numbers that each NIC has, so if you have a computer with 2 NIC's then you would have 2 MAC address's.
Most routers have a place to reserve DHCP IP's address's and it requires that you provide the MAC address that will get the reserved IP address. On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 5:56 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 16:32:32 -0800 > Bruce Kilpatrick <[email protected]> dijo: > >>On 12/27/2013 03:41 PM, wes wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Rich Shepard >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, John Jason Jordan wrote: >>>> >>>>> Rebooting changes its address? If so, that will not do. The >>>>> desktop needs to know where its server is. How can I fix the >>>>> laptop (and the desktop too, for that matter) with am IP address >>>>> that will always be the same? >>>> Bet your house network uses DHCP. If you have only a handful of >>>> hosts, and >>>> they don't change often, replace the DHCP with static IP addresses. >>>> >>>> Rich >>>> >>>> >>> Using static IPs comes with its own set of issues. The best solution >>> is to use DHCP Reservations if at all possible. One would consult >>> their router's documentation for if or how this can be done. >>> >>> -wes >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PLUG mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >>This is what I do at home to keep my printer and laptops all on the >>same page. It was not hard to figure out on my Netgear. It has just >>worked ever since. > > I have half a dozen laser printers, three computers and an HDHomeRun on > the network. There's also a wireless router, which is used mostly for > my phone. > > So I gather that the static IPs need to be set in the router, not in > the computers. I assumed that it would be like my laser printers, where > I set the IP in the printer's control panel. Indeed, my desktop > computer gets restarted every time PGE cuts out for a couple of > seconds, yet it is always 192.168.0.146. > > If I set it in the router there must be some way to identify each > computer, else how does the router know which computer to give which > address to? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Cheers, Jeff _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
