[NCLUG] permanent IP addresses on a home LAN?

[Paul Hummer]

You could check out dd-wrt at http://dd-wrt.com  dd-wrt allows you to 
turn a $50 SOHO wireless router into a router with a $200 router 
featureset.  I've got a few routers that I've flashed with it, mostly 
LinkSys routers, but I just flashed a Buffalo AirStation and am using 
it.  It will allow you to do the exact thing you want (which I did for 
my Wii to keep it out of DHCP namespace).  Check to see if your router 
supports it, and if it does, I highly reccomend it.

Paul

S. Luke Jones wrote:
> I once had a 10/100Base-T switch + router that let me configure its
> DHCP server to assign IP addresses by MAC address. I replaced 10*BaseT
> with 802.3g or whatever you call WiFi and could never go back, but my
> wireless router doesn't let me configure the DHCP server that way.
>
> And I miss it. In particular, I miss it whenever we have a power
> outage and machines come back online in nondeterministic order, and
> get IP addresses at random, and all my .ssh/known_hosts lines become
> wrong, and I have to think a lot harder before I do things like rsync
> -av --delete . 192.168.2.101:work
>
> Could anyone recommend a way -- assuming there even is a one -- of
> overcoming the lack in my Wireless router and getting dynamically
> assigned IP addresses to be less dynamic and more static-ish?
>
> (No, it doesn't have anything to do with Linux, although one of the
> machines in question does run Linux.)
>