Home Lan with D-Link DI-604

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Looking at the DI-604 manual, you should have no problem assigning
>> static IP addresses to your machines using the router's DHCP setup.
> 
> I use a DI-604, and I simply disabled DHCP and set up static IP
> on my machine. Why use DHCP in order not to use DHCP?
> 
It works fine if all your machines are going to have static IP's.
But I have a few laptops that drift in and out of here that need
DHCP on the other networks they connect to, so it works out better
to let leave them set up for a dynamic IP address, and give them a
fixed address when here. (I could set up different network profiles
for different locations, but this works well for me.) I also
sometimes have "guest" machines on the local network, and I don't
have to reconfigure them. Now, I could set up all the servers with
static IP addresses outside the range of DHCP addresses and that
would work as well. I do this with a couple of print servers on the
network.

Mikkel
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