[X4U] Home Networking Questions ( Static IP verses DHCP)

[Neil Laubenthal]

>  I have a few computers at home - and I have been networking  them using a
>lynksys router using DHCP.
>
>  Now, I would prefer to connect them up with static IP's through the router
>rather than DHCP - so that I can always permanently know that a particular
>IP is always the same computer even after rebooting etc..
>
>*  basically, I would like to leave the Linksys - set up to obtain an IP
>automatically -  however assign each computer a static/ permanent IP's
>(ex:xxx.xx.x.162 etc)...
>
>How  do I set this up using Panther 10.3.2?
>

You need to go into the Linksys and set it to get an IP via DHCP from 
the cable modem
(or DSL modem, whatever). Turn off the DHCP server in the Linksys and 
set it up with a static IP on the inside in the 192.168.x.x range 
(for instance 192.168.0.1.

Next, go into each computer and set up another IP in the same range, 
for example 192.168.0.2, 3, 4, 3 etc. For subnet mask use 
255.255.255.0. For Gateway use 192.168.0.1.
For DNS, use the values provided by your ISP.

Essentially . . . you get a dynamic IP from the cable/dsl company and 
that IP is then
routed to the 192.168.x.x IP's inside which you've manually assigned. 
Each of the workstations looks to the inside IP of the Linksys for 
it's gateway address.

On the linksys . . . it might be called WAN and LAN . . .in which 
case WAN is the outside (DHCP) and LAN is the inside (static IP's).


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