ip address on lan getting hijacked

[Bart Silverstrim]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> steve wrote:
> 
>> I agree, static IPs are pretty much necessary for anyone who uses apache
>> on any box or several.  
> 
> Well, no, not really.  You need an _unchanging_ IP, or you need to be able
> to address the server by name.  Both can be handled on the Linksys by using
> DHCP but making it give out specific addresses to specific MAC addresses.
> 
>> say here, I have 3 webcams I use for home 
>> monitoring  (teenagers, gotta love em) every box has a static IP that
>> has a cam on it , apache listens on different port for each box.  The
>> router directs to a certain LAN IP depending on what port (cam) I choose
>> to view. I also have a webserver on yet a different box with a static
>> IP.  DHCP would wreak havoc on my setup.
> 
> No it wouldn't.

OR you do it the way I do it here...

You have a home router with DHCP. You set the router to a set address, 
like 192.168.1.1. You tell the DHCP configuration part of the firmware 
to hand out a bank of addresses at a particular point, like, say, 
192.168.1.100 to 150 or 200. You *statically assign* addresses to key 
devices...printers, your primary workstations, etc...in another "bank", 
like 192.168.10 to 20 for printers, and 20 to 99 for your workstations, 
only you don't use them in the DHCP server at all. You put them on the 
devices themselves.

If you have more than 50 transient systems in your home network, you are 
probably doing something like either LAN parties or you have people 
hopping on that aren't in your home. If you have more than 10 network 
printers in your home you probably should not be using a "home network" 
setup because that's rather beyond the average home user's network 
configuration (at least until the concept of a truly digital home 
spreads and you need IP addresses for your washer, drier, and oven...)

The DHCP can handle just your transient devices. Keep organized banks of 
  IP's set aside to assign *on the devices* you're not going to change 
so you can keep track of them and not have to reconfigure a new router 
if something happens to them, as inevitably happens to home/SOHO 
multifunction routers...you just drop in the new one with the old one's 
address and set the old bank of DHCP addresses to the new one's DHCP range.

-Bart