Home network backup solutions?

[Reid Rivenburgh]

On Feb 20, 2008 11:42 AM, Reid Rivenburgh <reidr at pobox.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the advice.  I have a wired/wireless Netgear router that's
> configured to dole out IP addresses to the laptops (and tivos) via
> DHCP.  It's always worked that way, and I never saw any reason to do
> it differently before.  Hopefully it can be configured as you describe
> or I may need to rethink the whole thing.  (I'm a networking novice,
> really.)

I realized I could check that now through the magic of X Windows.  And
yes, it looks like the router does let me assign the same IP address
to a particular machine/MAC address.

Thanks again,
reid