keeping the same ip on home LAN

ringo747 · 30 Apr 2007 at 20:08

Hi, on my old router every time i booted up a machine it had the same ip address on the local network such as 192.168.0.3 or whatever. On my new router (Netgear DG834N) every time i boot up a machine the ip changes. This is kind of annoying as I have set up firewall rules in the router specific to each machine. Is there any way I can stop the local IP from changin each time? I think it might be something to do with the DHCP settings but not sure on it. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks

WotDa · 30 Apr 2007 at 20:32

DHCP client lease time springs to mind, have a peek for that.

lsg1r · 30 Apr 2007 at 20:45

why dont you just set the ip manually on the computer - saves a lot of hassle, thats what I do

ringo747 · 30 Apr 2007 at 20:48

think i got it sorted - something called an address reservation table? it links up an IP address and binds it to a MAC address i think. Cheers for the help

Deception · 1 May 2007 at 08:18

jonnyc747 said:
think i got it sorted - something called an address reservation table? it links up an IP address and binds it to a MAC address i think. Cheers for the help

Yea thats right, Im currently setting that up for my home network too. Pretty handy tool