[PLUG] Setting laptop network for new router configuration

[wes]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>  Stay tuned. Update Real Soon Now.
>>
>
> Wes,
>
>   Thanks for the lesson. Connecting to a LAN port and temporarily setting
> the laptop eth0 to use DHCP made the difference. This is on a Linksys
> wrt54g
> v.2 router. I also upgraded the firmware to 4.21.5.
>
>   On the Linksys' admin pages is the statement that DHCP is limited to 50
> hosts. After setting everything up for static IP addresses the status page
> shows the ending LAN IP address as 192.168.55.51. My printers and the WAP
> are in the .200-.220 range. Is this just a generic default value and the
> router actually doesn't care about static IP addresses because it's not
> serving them?
>
>
If DHCP is enabled on the router, and some new device connects to your
local network, and also has DHCP enabled, the router will assign the next
IP address in its sequence to the device. If anything else on the local
network already has that address set statically, it will cause a conflict.

-wes