static IPs for linksys wrt54g wireless router.

Hi, I have four wireless computers in the home and they are all
assigened
IP address by the wrt54G. However I'd like them each to have their own
static ip address. How do I setup the router to assigne a static ip to
each
computer? (using mac address?)

B.

On 25 Jul 2006 12:54:02 -0700, "KraftDiner" <bobrien18@yahoo.com> wrote
in <1153857242.888093.73950@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>:

>Hi, I have four wireless computers in the home and they are all
>assigened
>IP address by the wrt54G. However I'd like them each to have their own
>static ip address. How do I setup the router to assigne a static ip to
>each
>computer? (using mac address?)

You may need to switch to third-party firmware. See the wikis below.

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The WRT54G cannot do this.

However, you can configure the computers to use static IP addresses. Just
assign them addresses below the dynamically-assigned range. For instance,
if your router is at 192.168.1.1 and assigns at and above 192.168.1.100,
then just configure your computers (and other wireless devices) to use
addresses like 192.168.1.51.

-Yves

"KraftDiner" <bobrien18@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1153857242.888093.73950@i42g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
> Hi, I have four wireless computers in the home and they are all
> assigened
> IP address by the wrt54G. However I'd like them each to have their own
> static ip address. How do I setup the router to assigne a static ip to
> each
> computer? (using mac address?)
>
> B.
>

On 25 Jul 2006 12:54:02 -0700, in alt.internet.wireless , "KraftDiner"
<bobrien18@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi, I have four wireless computers in the home and they are all
>assigened
>IP address by the wrt54G. However I'd like them each to have their own
>static ip address. How do I setup the router to assigne a static ip to
>each
>computer? (using mac address?)

You don't. You do it at the client end, and optionally disable the
DHCP server in the router.

(aside: some routers let you set the DHCP lease time to infinity. I've
had three different routers that all handled this diffferently, with
lease times from inf to 28 days, all of which had the effect of
re-leasing the same IP each time to the same client.)
>
>B.
--
Mark McIntyre

Mark McIntyre wrote:
> On 25 Jul 2006 12:54:02 -0700, in alt.internet.wireless , "KraftDiner"
> <bobrien18@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have four wireless computers in the home and they are all
>> assigened
>> IP address by the wrt54G. However I'd like them each to have their own
>> static ip address. How do I setup the router to assigne a static ip to
>> each
>> computer? (using mac address?)
>
> You don't. You do it at the client end, and optionally disable the
> DHCP server in the router.
>
> (aside: some routers let you set the DHCP lease time to infinity. I've
> had three different routers that all handled this diffferently, with
> lease times from inf to 28 days, all of which had the effect of
> re-leasing the same IP each time to the same client.)
>> B.

The standard firmware in the WRT54G, even V5, will do that; however, if the router power is
recycled, the mac correspondence is lost. I have one computer that needs to have a fixed IP address
as it is serves both NFS and subversion. As suggested earlier, it got 192.168.1.50, whereas the DHCP
addresses start at 192.168.1.100.

Larry

"KraftDiner" <bobrien18@yahoo.com> hath wroth:

>Hi, I have four wireless computers in the home and they are all
>assigened
>IP address by the wrt54G. However I'd like them each to have their own
>static ip address. How do I setup the router to assigne a static ip to
>each
>computer? (using mac address?)

You can't do that with the stock Linksys WRT54G firmware. It lacks a
feature called "static DHCP", "static leases", or "reserved DHCP".

If you switch to an alternative WRT54G firmware such as DD-WRT it has
this feature. Unfortunately, the setup is a bit overly convoluted.
See:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Static_DHCP

Others have suggested using static IP's on the workstations and not
bothering with "static DHCP" in the router. That works, but has one
problem. If the client is a laptop, and you want move around to other
access points (i.e. work, skool, coffee shop, etc) that use DHCP
assigned addresses, you'll need to change the configuration of your
network connection. It's not particularly difficult to do, but it
does get old after a while. There are programs such as Netswitcher to
help, but it can all be avoided if you just use DHCP on the laptop
clients and "static DHCP" in the router. I suggest using alternative
firmware and specifically "DD-WRT v23 SP1 Final".

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On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:06:09 -0700, in alt.internet.wireless , Jeff
Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:

>Others have suggested using static IP's on the workstations and not
>bothering with "static DHCP" in the router. That works, but has one
>problem. If the client is a laptop, and you want move around to other
>access points (i.e. work, skool, coffee shop, etc) that use DHCP
>assigned addresses, you'll need to change the configuration of your
>network connection.

I have a recollection of getting round this by adding two connections,
one with fixed IP and one with DHCP, and disabling whichever one was
inappropriate. Much quicker than fooling with the DHCP settings.
--
Mark McIntyre

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:03:29 +0100, Mark McIntyre
<markmcintyre@spamcop.net> wrote in
<lgbfc2t3atllcg90bi5r2lavsqii8jtq6d@4ax.com>:

>On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:06:09 -0700, in alt.internet.wireless , Jeff
>Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:
>
>>Others have suggested using static IP's on the workstations and not
>>bothering with "static DHCP" in the router. That works, but has one
>>problem. If the client is a laptop, and you want move around to other
>>access points (i.e. work, skool, coffee shop, etc) that use DHCP
>>assigned addresses, you'll need to change the configuration of your
>>network connection.
>
>I have a recollection of getting round this by adding two connections,
>one with fixed IP and one with DHCP, and disabling whichever one was
>inappropriate. Much quicker than fooling with the DHCP settings.

How do (did) you create an additional connection for a single hardware
device?

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