02-26-15 09:13 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about IP Address Changes-Wh

 ml> {at}MSGID: 
 ml>  On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Ed Vance wrote to mark lewis:
Howdy! Mark,

 ml> yes... and if you have to change the NIC, there'll be a new MAC...
 ml> the MAC is assigned to the NIC, not the machine... laptops with
 ml> both cable and wifi capabilities have at least two MACs...

 EV> I'd think the only to change the NIC would if I replaced the
 EV> Motherboard in this desktop pc.

 ml> i'd start by adding a new NIC and plugging it into an available
 ml> slot ;) you wanted to not use the one on the motherboard,
 ml> disable it in the BIOS if it can be... perhaps you might want
 ml> gigabyte speeds on your internal network and the MB NIC is only
 ml> 10/100 ;)

OH, O.K., right now just got the XP desktop and Vista notebook, and
unless You or another person tells me gigabyte speeds can be used
on a notebook, I wouldn't have any need for that speed.
Thanks for the suggestion.

 ml> DHCP address reservations (aka psuedo-static) are made based on
 ml> the MAC...

 EV> As I learned, which ever pc is turned on first around here gets
 EV> the DHCP Server .100 IP Address, and the next one turned on gets
 EV> something other than .100 .

 ml> here's the thing about DHCP... each machine's DHCP client will
 ml> (should!) request the address it had last... some machines are
 ml> very persistent over time in asking for an old address they may
 ml> not have had for 25 connections or more... the DHCP server will
 ml> (should!) offer the last address that a specific client had the
 ml> last time it was connected... many blackbox routers (aka those
 ml> bought at the local circut city or best buy or similar) have
 ml> DHCP servers in them but their implementation is generally not
 ml> as robust as it could be...

You've looked into the insides of this here stuff and learned lots
about it, thanks for sharing.

I just plod along trying to learn about this stuff.
-snip-
 EV> As I told Ben, I may have figured a way to keep this XP pc using
 EV> the . 100 IP Address.

 ml> the best way to do that is to go to your modem/router thing's
 ml> configuration page and in the DHCP section, set a reservation
 ml> of .100 to your workstation and set .101 to the other
 ml> machine... in fact, you might want to set reservations for all
 ml> devices on your network so that you know they will never
 ml> change... then if at some point you need to renumber your
 ml> network, you simply do it in this configuration page... all of
 ml> the machines i manage are handled this way ;)

Keep urging me on, I might get a ROUNDTUIT someday.

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