Re: Help with Router
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 03:06:03AM -0400, Silvan wrote:
> On Saturday 17 July 2004 11:57 am, Christopher J. Noyes wrote:
> I'm not aware of any way to force that router to assign addresses in any
> controllable way. First come, first serve. (I'd love to hear different.
> It's the Linksys router from Wal-Mart I'm talking about here; yours might not
> be the same one.) That means each machine's IP address on the LAN could
> change at any time. It complicates a few things, but I find it's not too bad
> since the Linux machine is pretty well always started first, and both
> machines almost always have predictable IP addresses on the LAN the router
> provides, which are in /etc/hosts on the Linux box, and C:\SOME-STUPID-PLACE
> on the Windows machine. I can't remember. C:\WINDOWS\HOSTS maybe.
Usually you can assign a static ip to the LAN machines using the MAC
address, check advanced setup in router(i think, not sure).
Q: Why would a router slow down a connection?
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