[PLUG] Dumb network question

[John Jason Jordan]

On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 16:32:32 -0800
Bruce Kilpatrick <kd7vvk at gmail.com> dijo:

>On 12/27/2013 03:41 PM, wes wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Rich Shepard
>> <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rebooting changes its address? If so, that will not do. The
>>>> desktop needs to know where its server is. How can I fix the
>>>> laptop (and the desktop too, for that matter) with am IP address
>>>> that will always be the same?
>>>     Bet your house network uses DHCP. If you have only a handful of
>>> hosts, and
>>> they don't change often, replace the DHCP with static IP addresses.
>>>
>>> Rich
>>>
>>>
>> Using static IPs comes with its own set of issues. The best solution
>> is to use DHCP Reservations if at all possible. One would consult
>> their router's documentation for if or how this can be done.
>>
>> -wes
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>This is what I do at home to keep my printer and laptops all on the
>same page.  It was not hard to figure out on my Netgear.  It has just
>worked ever since.

I have half a dozen laser printers, three computers and an HDHomeRun on
the network. There's also a wireless router, which is used mostly for
my phone.

So I gather that the static IPs need to be set in the router, not in
the computers. I assumed that it would be like my laser printers, where
I set the IP in the printer's control panel. Indeed, my desktop
computer gets restarted every time PGE cuts out for a couple of
seconds, yet it is always 192.168.0.146. 

If I set it in the router there must be some way to identify each
computer, else how does the router know which computer to give which
address to?