Setting Up Static Internal IP Adresses

[Gernster]

Hi, I run an FTP client on my pc, with the router firewall rules set to allow traffive to 192.168.0.2. However, for some reason DHCP keeps assigning my pc 192.168.0.4, which is no good!

Can someone give me a walk through on setting up static IP addresses please? (Windows Vista and Black Sagem Router)

[NewsreadeR]

To set the PC with a static IP,

Right click on little icon near clock

Choose Network and Sharing Centre

Click on view status

Click on Properties

Select Internet Protocol Version 4 so it is highlighted

Click on Properties

Type in the details:

IP address: 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1

Use the following DNS server addresses:

192.168.0.1

[Gernster]

ah, that simple?? I was taking the settings from the router for gateway & DNS!!!!

[Gernster]

hmmmm curiouser & curiouser, did thats but got an ip conflict, checked the router and an 'unknown' device was connected as 192.168.0.2, disabled the WAN and it dissappeared?? has someone cracked my WPA password???

Could be my nect door neighbour as his laptop does have my password in it, however, bit late to ask now!!!

[Gernster]

ps, static IP now set as 192.168.0.2, so thanks for that, will DCHP sdtill assign my missus laptop an address when she connects?

[NewsreadeR]

Should do yes, or you could just repeat the exercise, with 192.168.0.3 for her Laptop.

[Ratcliffes]

From personal experience, I find it preferable to set the DHCP server in the router to allocate static IP addresses. All you need is the MAC address of each networkable device which you can either find on a sticker on the network card or by using ipconfig /all the the command prompt or by using the "attached devices" webpage in the router itself. Every network device in the world has a unique number in the format xx:xx:xx:xx:xx known as a MAC address (Nothing to do with Apple!)

Armed with the MAC address you can reserve a static address in the router's DHCP server. This way, when your wife takes her laptop out of the house and connects to another network (at work, a wireless hotspot, someone else's house etc) she won't have to remember to change the IP address on her machine to match the new network.

This is also preferable to allocating static addresses to each device manually as it is impossible to allocate the same address to two machines by accident.

[IAmNotTheEnemy]

better off using 208.67.222.222/208.67.220.220 as your DNS servers...