Re: Home networking--DHCP or static?

From: Richard G. Harper (rgharper_at_email.com)
Date: 12/11/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 06:52:47 -0500

It might be helpful to run an IPCONFIG /ALL on a PC that has a DHCP-assigned
address and compare those settings to IPCONFIG /ALL on a static-assigned PC.
You may be missing some other settings you need like a default gateway or
DNS server addresses. 

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"Hiawatha Bray" <watha2020@verizon.net> wrote in message 
news:e5hj%23r03EHA.1192@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Sounds logical, but when I try it, the affected computer can no longer 
> connect over the Internet.  I switche back to DHCP, and everything works 
> again.
>
> I'm using a Siemens SpeedStream 2624 router, for what it's worth.  Works 
> fine, ordinarily.  I went into the setup screen and told it to limit DHCP 
> to 192.168.254.100 through 200.  Then I set a machine to 192.168.254.2. 
> It didn't work.  My network connection was gone.  I wonder what went 
> wrong...any ideas?  Thanks.
> "Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote in message 
> news:%23EM8Rkz3EHA.708@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> Should be easy enough - just assign static IP addresses to the PCs that 
>> are always on the network that are outside the range the DHCP server 
>> provides, then let "visitors" pick up an IP address from the router.
>>
>> For example, my Linksys wireless router is set up to assign IP addresses 
>> in the range 192.168.1.101 through 192.168.1.200 - so any static 
>> assignments I make are in the range of 192.168.1.2 through 192.168.1.100, 
>> that way there are no conflicts between the static and dynamic addresses.
>>
>> -- 
>> Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]  rgharper@gmail.com
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>>
>>
>> "Hiawatha Bray" <watha2020@verizon.net> wrote in message 
>> news:eJMaAGz3EHA.1188@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>>I have several computers at home connected to a network.  My DSL router 
>>>uses DHCP to assign each machine an IP address.  But if I shut off the 
>>>router or the computers, they often get assigned new IP addresses, which 
>>>messes up my network mapping.
>>>
>>> Would it make more sense for me to assign static IPs on the internal 
>>> 192.168 subnet to each machine?  Is there a way to do that, and still 
>>> use DHCP to set up any visiting computers that come along?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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