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On Monday 24 September 2007, Neil Walker wrote: |
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> Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> > My QUESTION: I connect two machines at home to a wireless router, with |
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> > my IP number a local one, assigned by the router. Is it reasonable to |
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> > set this up so my main home machine has the same IP number always, so |
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> > I can set up other machines to print over the local wireless net? |
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> Yes, of course you can. You can either set it up with a static address |
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> in /etc/conf.d/net with something like: |
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> config_ath0=( "192.168.1.2" ) |
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> routes_ath0=( "default via 192.168.1.1" ) |
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> substituting whatever is appropriate for your interface and addresses or |
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> you can configure the router to always give the same IP address to the |
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> MAC address of your main machine. |
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Or you can set it at the router, i.e. assign static IP addresses at the router |
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GUI and run dhcpcd at your different boxen. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |