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598392 2007-10-05 23:30:00 Does anyone know if a static IP is free on xnet? I was about to request one but couldn't find any info regarding this.

Cheers 		jermsie (6820)
598393 2007-10-05 23:36:00 All I did was give the NIC's here their own ips, instead of putting them on obtain an ip automatically.

Well I had to, thats what the manual said, so I can open ports on the router.

You cant open ports on the router, using DHCP. And yup, this is on Xnet.

The router once you apply the settings, save and reboot it, will show the ips as static. 		Speedy Gonzales (78)
598394 2007-10-05 23:45:00 All I did was give the NIC's here their own ips, instead of putting them on obtain an ip automatically.

Well I had to, thats what the manual said, so I can open ports on the router.

You cant open ports on the router, using DHCP. And yup, this is on Xnet.

The router once you apply the settings, save and reboot it, will show the ips as static.

Thanks :) 		jermsie (6820)
598395 2007-10-05 23:51:00 All I did was give the NIC's here their own ips, instead of putting them on obtain an ip automatically.

Well I had to, thats what the manual said, so I can open ports on the router.

You cant open ports on the router, using DHCP. And yup, this is on Xnet.

The router once you apply the settings, save and reboot it, will show the ips as static.

jermsie is talking about the actual internet (WAN) IP address, not the internal IP addresses on the LAN.

I don't know whether they are free or not sorry.

I use ssh a bit, so I use www.dyndns.com
Instead of having a static IP address. 		Sherman (9181)
598396 2007-10-05 23:58:00 Also, why is it when setting up port fowarding, you have to set up a static IP address?
I use a far nicer (to me anyway) solution. I use DHCP, but set up my router so that IT ASSIGNS (and reserves) THE SAME IP address for specific devices on the network.

Therefore, if computer 1 is set up in the router this way, even if it is not connected, NO OTHER device will be assigned its designated IP address. And when computer 1 does connect to the network, it WILL BE assigned that IP address and that one ALWAYS. 		Sherman (9181)
598397 2007-10-06 00:02:00 Thanks :)

lol, dont know if that helps or not.

And I put the ip for the router (not the ISP) in Primary DNS.

And the primary Xnet DNS in as Alternate DNS.

Everything seems to work. I'm here! And I can set the networked computers here (before, I did this I couldnt get the networked computers, to appear).

BUT, I could share the folders, I created and shared on both of these. 		Speedy Gonzales (78)
598398 2007-10-06 00:11:00 Also, why is it when setting up port fowarding, you have to set up a static IP address?

Well, thats a good question

BUT with this router, if you put the ips in manually, it'll create static ips.

And let you open ports for whatever.

From what I saw in the router setup yesterday (when I configured ports for Mirc), once you type in the ips manually on whatever PC, they'll appear in the router as static ips.

Then I had to go to Lan clients in the router, and add the ips I entered in manually, then go to virtual server (port forwarding), select my ip I put in, add Mirc's ports, then apply the setting, then save and reboot the router.

I think with this router, the new entries you put in, (even tho there's 2 ips in there), if I add whatever to my ip, it'll only apply to my ip (not the networked PC - you can select whatever ip address, so you can add whatever ports to it).

So, if I want to add ports for the networked computer, I'll have to go back into the router, select the other ip (not mine) add whatever, apply the settings, and then save and reboot the router again.

I also found out that the View Networked computers window wouldnt open (so I could see both computers on this network, it froze before I made the ips static).

BUT, the shortcuts I created on the desktop, for both worked, and the send to options I put in for each folder, also worked.

But changing both to static fixed that prob, it also fixed the prob of me trying to DCC files in Mirc. 		Speedy Gonzales (78)
598399 2007-10-06 00:24:00 Static IP's ar fine I guess.... untill you want to go and connect to another network.
Especially for those of us on laptops.

Just out of curiosity. what router do you have? 		Sherman (9181)
598400 2007-10-06 00:33:00 G604T Gen II

Well, I could keep both on DHCP (leave the LANS on obtain an ip automatically),

They'll still work, when you're on the internet. And file sharing.

BUT, then until you give both static ips, you wont be able to send anything / files, to anyone.
So the manual says.

If you have to, that is.

Connecting to other computers (depending on which one is the main one), just change the gateway in the LAN.

It may also depend on whether its ethernet or wireless as well.

If I connected a laptop to this for example, I would just plug it into a port, go into its LAN properties, give it an ip and point it to router, so it'd get on the net.

The router would still pick it up, but unless you made it a static ip and added it and whatever ports, to the router, you may not be able to send files with it. 		Speedy Gonzales (78)
598401 2007-10-06 01:12:00 For sharing files between two computers on a LAN shouldn't require static IP's. For peer2peer apps, then some form is necessary to forward the ports.

The whole point of setting up a static IP is so that the router has a set IP address to forward ports to. Fair enough.

You and I are basically using two different methods to achieve the same (or similar) results. 		Sherman (9181)
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