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Re: Samba or NFS--tangent



On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 06/05/2011 07:59 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>
>> On Sb, 04 iun 11, 22:56:19, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>> (I'd suggest that you give static IP addresses to your desktop
>>> machines and use the /etc/hosts file -- yes, even Windows has one --
>>> to give your machines permanent symbolic names.  Makes things easier
>>> that way.)
>>
>> If you're lucky the wireless router supports this (out-of-the box or
>> with an upgrade to DD-WRT) ;)
>>
>
> Are most wireless routers that limited?
>
> I'm still using the stock firmware on a WRT54GL and it allows me to set the
> DHCP IP address assignment range.  It was, I think, from 1 - 100 but I
> changed it to 100 - 150.

Most models also support DHCP reservations, to get the IP addresses
set consistently and not have to manually manipulate the network on
your clients.


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