i'll try that, its really annoying not knowing if you can access your 
webpages the next day lol

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: router howto


>I set my router to start assigning numbers at 101 and set my static
> addresses below that, so in my case the i r l p Linux box is
> 192.168.1.50.  I can then port forward to this specific address.
> 73s
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr
>
> On Mon, 26
> Mar 2007, John Miller wrote:
>
>> Just set the IP address in the Linux machine if you can to a fixed IP
>> address, the router won't change it then. Just make sure it's a high 
>> number
>> though like the last 3 numbers are 125 or something, if you pick a low
>> number that the router would assign now, like 100 through 104 or so,
>> depending on how many computers you have, it can cause an issue but as 
>> long
>> as you use a nigh number, I usually go for numbers in the 120s when I 
>> need
>> to set the IP address, you should be all set.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "matt V" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 3:24 PM
>> Subject: ot: router howto
>>
>>
>>> hello all and sorry in advance for this offtopic question
>>> I have a linksys router and basically my setup is a windows machine and 
>>> =
>>> a linux machine, the linux box has my webpages and i'm finding that the 
>>> =
>>> router reassigns the linux machine's address every day or 2 which is =
>>> anoying to say the least.  its easy to fix but is there a way to get =
>>> this not to do that randomly, only when i explicitly change it or redo =
>>> the dhcpcd command from linux?
>>> i am not quite looking forward to buying a second cable modem and ip =
>>> either.  i have an option called dmz host, but im not sure if this will 
>>> =
>>> do what i want
>>> any ideas?
>>> thanks
>>> matt
>>