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ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shmokes on July 29, 2008, 02:37:06 pm ---But are you specifying a static IP address on the device, i.e., in Xbox Media Center manually entering in a specific IP address which it then requests from the DHCP server every time you turn it on? Because that's different, and not nearly so useful as static DHCP on the router.
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I've never set an IP for any of the nonPCs so if they are static they were implemented that way... which would be pretty foolish. Especially the Wii since it's such an appliance.
shmokes:
In that case, your DHCP server will hand out, for example, your Xbox's ip address to a new device on the network if the Xbox hasn't connected in a while and its DHCP lease has expired if a new device tries to connect. Generally speaking the DHCP will hand out the same address to the same device over and over again so long as nothing else has not taken the address, but even this is not always the case. All DHCP servers work this way, but static DHCP eliminates headaches and makes for far easier setup and much nicer management. You should give it a shot.
ChadTower:
Oh I get that... just saying that if you set your IP pool large enough the default firmware seems to do that anyway. It does for a small amount of clients (<10), anyway.
boykster:
Static DHCP can be pretty useful for devices that don't allow for setting a static IP, but for some reason "work better" with one. For example, I have a Sonos music system, and the handhelds are essentially small handheld PC's that go into low power mode and go to sleep. When they wake up, they don't always do a full network re-initialization, and if their DHCP lease has gone stale, they can freeze up, requiring a reboot. Setting a static lease for those devices solves the problem.
Glad to hear of others having success with Tomato firmware. I was at first skeptical, since I had such a good experience with DD-WRT, but I'll be damned it Tomato isn't head and shoulders better. The UI is cleaner, more intuitive, and the feature that sold me was the real-time and historical bandwidth usage logging/graphing. GREAT stuff! :cheers:
Cakemeister:
If you want to run a server that the outside world can get to, static IP is very useful. You have to forward the ports for the server to that static IP address.
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