On Thursday 23 September 2004 19:31, David Evans wrote:
> Are we talking about the PC's IP address here? This was a source of
> trouble in setting up my home network with a router. Typically the
> router takes the single IP address allocated by your ISP and uses
> Network Address Translation (NAT) to share that amongst all the PCs in
> the house. Each PC needs it's own unique internal IP address, purely
> for your network. These have to be all different from each other and
> in the same range as the router's internal IP address. "Default
> gateway" on each PC should be set to the router's internal IP address.
...
DHCP is your friend.
Set the router to supply an IP address, advertise itself as gateway and
DNS proxy and then tell each new machine to ask (using dhcpclient in Linux)
for a ticket. (Dynamic host Configuration Protocol)
You can arrange for a machine to always have the same address by telling the
DHSP server its hardware address (MAC) and nominating one address to fix to
that, and leave some vacancies, or none, for visitors.
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Adrian Midgley Open Source software is better
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