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| Thread ID: 94132 | 2008-10-15 20:22:00 | Crowded network - Automatic or Manual IP's | supersi (8401) | Press F1 |
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| 712483 | 2008-10-15 22:21:00 | Solmeister. If you read from the start of the post you might see I've already tried that. On the other hand, Wainuitech did this and has given a considered and very helpful response rather than second-guessing. Excuse me, no where in your post did you say you had disable the PC from going to sleep!, the NIC yes, but not the PC.... While you are reserving IP addresses, you might like to reserve all the address for the devices period, which will be the same as static addressing.. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 712484 | 2008-10-15 23:00:00 | All sorted. Each device has a reserved ip now. No issues with reconnecting from sleep on any of the devices. | supersi (8401) | ||
| 712485 | 2008-10-15 23:24:00 | assuming the router is capable of the full range 2-254,routers generally have 255 or 1 as the routers IP) With a typical class C network (address starts with 192-224) and a /24 subnet mask, generally 1 is the network address and 255 the broadcast address. |
stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 712486 | 2008-10-15 23:46:00 | With a typical class C network (address starts with 192-224) and a /24 subnet mask, generally 1 is the network address and 255 the broadcast address. When you set static though you can set to what you want - I have one workshop PC that insists on having 109, it's set to Obtain Automatically no matter what workstation I have it connected to, the Mrs PC is set to 50 and my sons set to 51, yet my laptop even though its set to Auto, will always get an address of between 10-40. All sorted. Each device has a reserved ip now. No issues with reconnecting from sleep on any of the devices Great --- all nice when a network runs as its meant to.:) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 712487 | 2008-10-16 00:17:00 | I realise what static assignments do. What I was attempting to explain is that the first address is the Routers Network address and last is the Broadcast. | stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 712488 | 2008-10-16 00:44:00 | Thats cool :thumbs: fully agree | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 712489 | 2008-10-16 01:36:00 | Just adding my 2c: - 6 machines on a network (let alone a subnet) is hardly "too many devices" - fairly common practice to have a fixed set of addresses (as other mentioned for servers etc) and allocate a dynamic portion too. - I would guess that's a standard feature for dhcp servers to allow for this type of configuration |
dyewitness (9398) | ||
| 712490 | 2008-10-16 01:59:00 | DNS Address: If you don't know what's yours, you can use OpenDNS's Primary: 208.67.222.222 Secondary: 208.67.220.220 Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 712491 | 2008-10-17 01:13:00 | +1 for OpenDNS We have approx 25 devices on our home network here at any given time... Would love to switch to an Apple Airport Express network, but that'd limit me to 10 devices, what a pain :( |
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