[X4U] IP address on local network

[alexandre]

thanks, neil. i'll check it out. i've just bought 2 new airport  
expresses ("802.11n"). i'll implement what your suggesting.

thanks

alexandre

On Apr 22, 2009, at 1:08 , Neil Laubenthal wrote:

> Sure . . .just go into Networking and set up static IPs for each  
> machine. You'll either have to completely disable DHCP on your  
> Airport or else change the scope of IPs that might be assigned to  
> not include the ones you have set up for static.
>
> For instance . . . if your airport is currently distributing  
> 192.168.1.2 through 192.168.1.254 . . . just change that to only  
> distribute say .1 through .25 and then assign static IPs to your  
> Macs starting at 26.
>
> Alternatively . . . you could set the DHCP lease for 999 days or  
> something like that . . .that way the IPs could be dynamically  
> assigned but would never change.
>
> Alternatively . . .although this is getting pretty geeky you could  
> just set up lease reservations in your Airport based on MAC address  
> and then each computer will always get the same dynamically assigned  
> IP address . . . giving you all the benefits of DHCP and all the  
> benefits of static IPs at the same time.
> On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:30 PM, alexandre wrote:
>
>> hi
>>
>> i have three macs on my local network, connected via airport  
>> locally and to the internet via dsl.
>>
>> on the mini (used as a media server) i have installed plex (www.plexapp.com 
>>  - great software!) to replace front row, telling it to stream  
>> music from my imac. the problem is that the imac local ip address  
>> keeps changing (apparently). it went for being 10.0.1.3 to  
>> 10.0.1.6… so plex can't find my music anymore.
>>
>> is there any way within the airport setup utility to prevent this  
>> and to keep attributing fix ip addresses on my local network?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> alexandre
>> 17" 2.33ghz ic2d macbook pro / 2.0gb / 160gb / X.5.6
>> 24" 2.33ghz ic2d imac / 3.0gb / 1tb / X.5.6
>> 2.0ghz ic2d mac mini / 4.0gb / 500gb / X.5.6
>> iphone 3G / white / 16gb
>> …and a few iPods.
>>
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