Specify Lan IPs

AndrewJRussell · 10th October 2003

Hi, im a big gamer, and i constantly have to change your my LAN ip in my router's admin CP forwarding section to match my current lan IP.

I want to beable to setup my PC to tell my Router to use 192.168.1.50

There arent 50machines on my network, but its just easier to shove it there.

I thought that if i check the 'Use the following IP' and filled in the info:

IP: 192.168.1.50
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Dafault Gateway: 192.168.1.1

Under TCP/IP properties, it would work, it shows my IP as this in internet connection properties:

http://www.killersmurfs.net/mycrap/ip.JPG

But it still shows my IP has 192.168.1.1 in my router.

Windows XP Pro/Linksys BSFR41

Any ideas?

KevinSaul · 10th October 2003

I've only set up one Linksys router but if I remember correctly you have to tell it how many machines are in your network and unless you told it you have 50 machines that IP address won't work.

Also the router automatically assigns an IP address unless you turn off the DHCP function.

AndrewJRussell · 10th October 2003

Oh ok thanks, if i turn DCHP though, wont that mean that other PCs on my network wont beable to get on the network?

Wont i have to give them IPs too, to tell the router?

AndrewJRussell · 10th October 2003

Ok i got a weird 'errors' - ive noticed since i rebooted my pc - my LAN ip doesnt appear in the DHCP client list.

But everyone elses does

BillyBob · 11th October 2003

192.168.1.1 is the main machine address provided by the Router and NAT. Then it gets translated back to your actual ISP address when outgoing.

Set the Router to be a DHCP server.

Set each Network card TCP\IP properties to " Obtain and address automaticly. "

The Router will ( or should ) handle the rest then by asigning and address to each machine as it is connected.

At least that is the way mine works. I just plugged the Router in. Set each machine on auto and did nothing else. And if I put the 4th machine on all I have to do is make sure it is set to Auto obtain and address.

Quote:

my LAN ip doesnt appear in the DHCP client list.

It won't. That is the WEB address. If you are referring to 192.168.1.1 ?

BillyBob

AndrewJRussell · 11th October 2003

Billybob, thanks but that doesnt answer the intial question.

Newt · 11th October 2003

Leave the router doing DHCP - there are probably other settings besides just the 3 you listed being assigned.

When you put a fixed IP, netmask, and default gateway in your PC, it should stay since that over-rides DHCP setting those values.

The LAN address of your router can and probably should stay just as it is. No one outside your network can use that part of it anyway.

Port forwarding (where the router passes any packets for certain ports to a specific PC) will work fine if you set to forward them to the address you have set up.

And to answer another answer, certainly the DHCP pool for the router can be set small enough that 192.168.1.50 would never be assigned. Doesn't matter though since any 192.168.1.x address can see any other in that range if you have a netmask of 255.255.255.0 and the router can port forward to it with no problems.

Andrew - I'm still not sure if you now have a problem that needs fixing. Did putting in those settings take care of things for you?

BillyBob · 11th October 2003

I just checked ny Router setup ( same Router )

192.168.1.1 ( LAN address ) is the DHCP server address which is shown at the TOP of the Client Table but not IN the Client table.

The Clients are 192.168.1.100 thru 192.168.1.102 ( 3 NICs ). All asigned by the DHCP Server.

I can just plug in the 4th NIC and it will be auto asigned 192.168.1.103.

If the DCHP server is enabled and all NICs are set to auto obtain and address there should be no need to do anything else.

Unless there are special needs to do so. Which should not be attempted until things are working correctly to begin with.

BillyBob

AndrewJRussell · 11th October 2003

Thanks newt - i believe that my lan ip is ".50"

Just not reporting it in DHCP list - router being weird, i can connect to the internet fine, ill setup some games later, and see if i timeout.

Thank

BillyBob · 11th October 2003

On my machine I get to Router setup at http: // 192,168,1,1

( Commas and spaces between are intentional. )

BB