[ale] Can I tell my Linksys router to always serve the same IP address?

Stephen Cristol stephen at bee.net
Thu Aug 25 02:12:27 EDT 2005


Both ALE-NE and ALE-Central will have talks on using OpenWRT with the 
WRT54G/GS in September. Information for the ALE-Central talk is already 
on the web site:

   http://ale.org/announcements/central/9_2005.txt

S


On Aug 24, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Brian Whigham wrote:
> What Linksys model are you using?
>
> I'm using openWRT for this on my WRT54G.  If you are familiar with 
> Linux
> and have a little time to figure out how to configure it, I would 
> highly
> recommend it.
>
> http://openwrt.org/
>
> Brian
>
> Jim Lynch wrote:
>
>> I'd really like to have each machine in my network have a predictible 
>> IP
>> address, but I also really like the idea that DHCP does more than give
>> an IP address (such as furnish DNS info also) so I don't want to just
>> set up static IPs for each machine. I'll never have more systems than
>> there are available IP addresses, so I really don't need for the 
>> router
>> to expire the addresses.  So can I tell it to not expire or in some
>> other way tell it to keep the same IP for a specific MAC address 
>> forever?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jim.
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