On some routers (I have several Linksys) when you turn on DHCP you can also click a radio button that allows you to reserve an IP for specific hosts or MAC addresses. Since I use static IPing for everything but Squeeze stuff, I opened up DHCP starting with 100 (192.168.1.100) and allowed 3 assignable addresses so from 192.168.1.101 to 192.168.1.103. Then I went in to (and here I can't remeber the label on the button, but it's right next to the button to turn on DHCP) reserve IP and listed the MAC address of each device and the IP address I wanted associated with it out of the available range. This way it's almost like you are using static IP's and it just makes everything easier.
I did find when I didn't do this that my two receivers would somehow compete for the same address. This created an hour of havoc trying to make the two recievers work at the same time. They shouldn't do that and I have no idea why they did, but the second receiver would steal the first receivers address. Drove me nuts for alittle while. Howard -- Howard Passman Sorry slow to respond. I don't spend that much time online. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Passman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48366 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
