I think what you're seeing and describing is normal DHCP behaviour - as you have different PC's or devices (printers/scanners etc) in your home network - then IP addresses can (and are allowed ) to change.
Obviously though you may need a certain device like a printer to have the same IP address time and time again - so you can always refer to it or use it.
Resolution : On your home router which is being the DHCP server - simply do a statis assign of MAC address to IP address (DHCP reservation). So for your printer MAC address - reserve the IP address you always want it to have. The DHCP server will then not offer it to any other PC or device except the printer.
So that sounds like it's going to be a fix. i just need to know how to do it. I have a linksys wrt54g router. I went through it and i must be overlooking it. i see where i can set it to static but that disables dhcp all together
I was looking at mine but i don't run the linksys software any more.i was looking in my manual and found that online.. .i know you can do it if you run DD-wrt..
no i don't see it under administrator>management. all i have there is password for router, web access, remote router access. i'm in no rush...i appreciate all the help...
Yeah, DHCP reservation is a pain with the WRT54G. Its located under Management on the Administration page about halfway down. I am not at home, but I think its MAC address * IP you want reserved *
Alas checking a few websites and even Linksys - it seems the WRT54G does not support nativley the simple DHCP reservation feature.....various blogs comment on this.
So you have two choices :
(1) Download a 3rd party firmware image - e.g DD_WRT which does have this feature
(2) Statically configure the IP address, subnet mask and default g/w on your printer - and then ensure the DHCP scope on the WRT54G starts higher than the printer address - so it never offers out your "statically assigned IP printer address"
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April 25th, 2008 07:00
I think what you're seeing and describing is normal DHCP behaviour - as you have different PC's or devices (printers/scanners etc) in your home network - then IP addresses can (and are allowed ) to change.
Obviously though you may need a certain device like a printer to have the same IP address time and time again - so you can always refer to it or use it.
Resolution : On your home router which is being the DHCP server - simply do a statis assign of MAC address to IP address (DHCP reservation). So for your printer MAC address - reserve the IP address you always want it to have. The DHCP server will then not offer it to any other PC or device except the printer.
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I was looking at mine but i don't run the linksys software any more.i was looking in my manual and found that online.. .i know you can do it if you run DD-wrt..
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see if this works
Yeah, DHCP reservation is a pain with the WRT54G. Its located under Management on the Administration page about halfway down. I am not at home, but I think its MAC address * IP you want reserved *
sentinel-master
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April 26th, 2008 09:00
Alas checking a few websites and even Linksys - it seems the WRT54G does not support nativley the simple DHCP reservation feature.....various blogs comment on this.
So you have two choices :
(1) Download a 3rd party firmware image - e.g DD_WRT which does have this feature
(2) Statically configure the IP address, subnet mask and default g/w on your printer - and then ensure the DHCP scope on the WRT54G starts higher than the printer address - so it never offers out your "statically assigned IP printer address"
I would try the 2nd choice first