Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,04.Oct.08, 18:38:42, Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> Thanks for the answer. Yes, this modem has an internal address of >> 192.168.1.1 I also notice that I seem to always get the ip 192.168.1.70 >> which doesn't seem to change. My partner, connected to the same modem >> always gets 192.168.1.62 . Since I am very inexperienced using DHCP >> connections I have no idea if this is normal or not or if I can consider >> this my static ip. > > It seems like your modem will always try to use the same IP. Usually you > can make sure it stays like this via the web interface, so you have to > look for something where you can specify the IP address allocated to a > specific MAC address[1]. > > If you really can't find your way through the web-interface you could > post some screenshots somewhere on the net, but be careful to obfuscate > any information you don't want to make public. > > [1] Just in case you are not familiar, the MAC address is unique to any > given network device > > Regards, > Andrei Hi Andrei, Yes I've already noticed exactly what you describe in the web interface and I am familiar with a MAC address. I'm just wondering if I should leave things as they are or configure the modem as discussed. Here's the screen shot which looks exactly as you describe it. My machine is the .70 one and its MAC address is along side it. Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/
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