David Eckard schreef:

>The 100 address is defualt action for most home routers.  They have a 
>range that they use for DHCP, usually starting at address 100.  You can 
>change this if you want but why bother? 
>
>  
>
It is already hard enough as it is indeed!

>The addresses are NOT fixed.  If you lose power for example, the router 
>will boot first most likely.  It will assign the 100 address to the 
>first computer that starts up and request an address via DHCP.  If thats 
>your laptop, it gets the 100.
>
Understood. Thanks.

>To lock the address down,
>
Once you know how it's works it's easy: just let them boot in the right 
order.

>  I don't know if linksys can do that.  Dlink 
>has a page where you can enter/select from a list mac addresses and 
>assign IP addresses to them.  I do this at home just to be sure that the 
>same address is assigned to each particular machine.   That is, anytime 
>a new device attaches to my router, it checks the mac address against 
>the a table it has.
>
Probably the smc has something like that, however it's not clear to me 
under which chapter that might be.

> 
>  
>

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris



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