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Hi Neil! |
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On 2017-04-19 12:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:46:09 +0200, Florian Gamböck wrote: |
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>> On 2017-04-18 20:41, Mick wrote: |
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>>> Assuming you have access to your home's router, you can configure on |
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>>> it a static IP address for the MAC address of the Raspi. The home |
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>>> router will not allocate any such reserved IP address to any other |
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>>> device, but reserve it for the Raspi's MAC address. |
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>> That's what I've been doing in the past, but my Cisco router had |
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>> problems with that. It tried to give away addresses I have |
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>> specifically reserved and it ended up cutting the connections and |
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>> refusing to let new machines connect as long as there was a conflict. |
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> You should allocate static addresses from outside of the DHCP reserved |
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> range. For example, set the DHCP range to 192.168.1.100-200 then |
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> allocate static addresses from below there. |
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That's what I've been doing until now, which is why I originally started |
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this thread. |
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What Mick meant was configuring the router, so it reserves IP addresses |
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for specified MAC addresses. These "almost" static addresses have to be |
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taken from within the DHCP range, because it is actually the DHCP server |
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that provides them. I used routers in the past which worked perfectly |
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with this setup, but somehow the machines I have to use nowadays don't |
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like anything wich is not plain old DHCP. |
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>> Besides, I like having configuration files on my computers, which I |
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>> can exchange and adjust as I like, without the need to click through |
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>> heavily overloaded router configuration WebApps. |
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> If you have an always on computer on your network, I would recommend |
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> trying dnsmasq. It has a DHCP server and means you can do all your |
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> network configuration in the one place, with simple text config files. |
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This sounds really promising, thank you for this tip! And also thank you |
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Peter and Paul for your feedback! |
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I will put it on my ToDo list and consider it the next time I'm about to |
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kick my router! ;-) |
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Kind regards |
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Flo |
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