I am having trouble with the two windows computers in my network, the ip address on them changes alot i am not doing anything. If i plug in the wired router to the modem, then to my airport would this fix it?
2006-09-13 14:26:13 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
You need to turn off DHCP. This allocates addresses dynamically. Turn off DHCP on any devices that support it and manually assign IP addresses to your machines individually.
Most likely the router is the device that is allocating addresses via DHCP as modems dont usually have this functionality unless they are 'modem/routers'.
You could also have a conflict in that both the wired router and your wireless router could both be running DHCP.
Turn off DHCP altogether if you want your machines to have consistent IP addresses.
2006-09-13 14:28:54 · answer #1 · answered by an0n 1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Home Routers DHCP has some big terms (but different) describing the samething: a database of hardware MACs and the IP fixed to it whenever a DHCP client of that MAC is requesting IP. In a D-Link router I had it was called "Static DHCP"
If even home router NATs have this, a real corporate DHCP server should have this too. Make use of that and assign a particular IP to a particular MAC hardware.
2006-09-13 21:34:49 · answer #2 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
turn off dhcp, use a switch or router to get to the internet, set your PCs to static ips on your intranet
2006-09-13 21:30:02 · answer #3 · answered by igɳo★ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋