Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:13:48 -0500 From: spampling Subject: Re: Moving ISP Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:03:53 +0100 Message-ID: <52cdabc014spam.pling@btinternet.com> References: <52c95573badave@davenoise.co.uk> <9f0957c952.Brian@bhowlett.plus.net> <52c95cbfb6dave@davenoise.co.uk> <17p*pR8eu@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> User-Agent: Pluto/2.05-a1 (RISC-OS/4.02) NewsHound/v1.50-32 Organization: Que? Orga-what Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-BXdpqsW4mV09bqI6B72KAdYztsPZ2fbq8lQ+rH66NXwqfc3zxveL0LLib/7Kkk2DcVgAitpGEX57xsc!26SvuJVH4ENPragH5FmB/qY+J7ZIponCVVnD84MZ0/tRw0CaAWZizirHJMM6PxSaLjSXLA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2257 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:6421 In article <17p*pR8eu@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Theo Markettos wrote: > What I do is pseudo-static IP. Teach the router the MAC address of each > client and create a mapping of that to a fixed IP. Address reservation. You enter the MAC and the name of the device as an entry to the DHCP server (in this case based in the router) if the router maintains a name server service e.g. DNS then you can reference by name. The best bit about reservations is that when the address renews, as it does at half the lease interval, the name server details etc held by the DHCP server are passed on to the client and any new settings come into force. Simply nailing in a manual static to a machine means you need to manual change the details if anything changes. > That means DHCP > always hands out the same IP each time when on my network, Many client machines tend to request the IP they had at last boot time and in the case of windows it doesn't do a release on shutdown anyway (MS breaking the DHCP rfc) -- Steve Pampling