How can I configure a static IP from my Linksys router?

Hi,

I'm running a LinkSys wireless router, WRT54GS, firmware v 4.70.6.
Someone on this newsgroup said it would be preferrable for me to
configure my static IP on my router instead of on the machine
directly. I like this idea, but I don't know how to do that with the
above router. Is it possible? How is it done?

Thanks, - Dave

laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running a LinkSys wireless router, WRT54GS, firmware v 4.70.6.
> Someone on this newsgroup said it would be preferrable for me to
> configure my static IP on my router instead of on the machine
> directly. I like this idea, but I don't know how to do that with the
> above router. Is it possible? How is it done?
>
> Thanks, - Dave

>

You friend is this.

Long

<http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linksys.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_sid=C6G8Fdwi&p_lva=358&p_li=&p_acces sibility=0&p_page=1&p_cv=&p_pv=&p_prods=0&p_cats=& p_hidden_prods=&prod_lvl1=0&p_scf_lang=1&p_search_ text=how+to+use+a+static+ip&p_new_search=1>

Short

http://tinyurl.com/2tte77

On Mar 10, 3:54 pm, "Mr. Arnold" <"Mr. Arnold"@Arnold.COM> wrote:
> laredotorn...@zipmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I'm running a LinkSys wireless router, WRT54GS, firmware v 4.70.6.
> > Someone on this newsgroup said it would be preferrable for me to
> > configure my static IP on my router instead of on the machine
> > directly. I like this idea, but I don't know how to do that with the
> > above router. Is it possible? How is it done?
>
> > Thanks, - Dave
>
> You friend is this.
>
> Long
>
> <http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linksys.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.p...>
>
> Short
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2tte77


Thanks but it appears from the articles that you must do stuff on the
client computers (I'm on a Fedora Core 5 Linux machine and these
articles discuss Windows). I was curious if the setup can be done
entirely from the router's control panel.

Thanks, - Dave

On 10 Mar 2007 13:48:13 -0800, in alt.internet.wireless ,
"laredotornado@zipmail.com" <laredotornado@zipmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm running a LinkSys wireless router, WRT54GS, firmware v 4.70.6.
>Someone on this newsgroup said it would be preferrable for me to
>configure my static IP on my router instead of on the machine
>directly. I like this idea, but I don't know how to do that with the
>above router. Is it possible? How is it done?

I don't have that router, but on many routers, you can tell the DHCP
server to assign an IP to a MAC on a semipermanent basis.

On my DLink its called Static DHCP clients and you select a MAC to
link to an IP address.

On my old SMC router, you just set the lease time to infinity, or the
largest possible value, which amounted to the same thing.

On my even older USR, it was something similar again.
--
Mark McIntyre

laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 10, 3:54 pm, "Mr. Arnold" <"Mr. Arnold"@Arnold.COM> wrote:
>
>>laredotorn...@zipmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>
>>>I'm running a LinkSys wireless router, WRT54GS, firmware v 4.70.6.
>>>Someone on this newsgroup said it would be preferrable for me to
>>>configure my static IP on my router instead of on the machine
>>>directly. I like this idea, but I don't know how to do that with the
>>>above router. Is it possible? How is it done?
>>
>>>Thanks, - Dave
>>
>>You friend is this.
>>
>>Long
>>
>><http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linksys.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.p...>
>>
>>Short
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/2tte77
>
>
>
> Thanks but it appears from the articles that you must do stuff on the
> client computers (I'm on a Fedora Core 5 Linux machine and these
> articles discuss Windows). I was curious if the setup can be done
> entirely from the router's control panel.
>
> Thanks, - Dave
>

You can set up the router to use a static IP instead of a DHCP IP that
the router would get from the ISP's DHCP server. That would require that
you contact the ISP to get the static IP(s) from the ISP to configure
the router to use the ISP's static IP(s) instated of the ISP's DHCP
IP(s), if the ISP gives those IP(s) out.

You can't configure the router to give out static IP(s) to client
machines. The client machines with their NIC's must obtain/use a static
IP on the router, just like the NIC's would obtain a DHCP IP from the
router's DHCP server.

DHCP IP(s) on the Linksys router normally start at 192.168.1.100 to the
DHCP Issue Count. If the count is 10, then 192.168.1.100-192.168.1.110
are DHCP IP(s) that the DHCP server on the router would issue to
machines requesting a DHCP IP from the router.

192.168.1.2-192.168.1.99 and 192.168.1.111-192.168.1.255 are the
router's static IP(s) not issuable by the router's DHCP server.

To use a static IP on the router, the O/S must configure the NIC to use
a static IP on the router.

So, you equate what it's telling you about Windows and you configure the
Linux machine's NIC to use a static IP on the router.

laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:

<snipped>

One other thing, the DHCP server on the router assigns the NIC's MAC to
the issued IP in the router's DHCP table. Most likely, the machine is
going to get the same DHCP IP assigned to it on a small network, which
is kind of static, unless you force a new DHCP IP to the machine.