That's precisely what I did; I tried to reserve an IP address for it. I
tried various different IP addresses, but none of them worked. I was told
that I need to contact my ISP for a static IP address, why was I told that?
If this is true, then why can I set it on my router?


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:26 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
>   Probably what you will need to do is let the iPad continue to rely on
> DHCP to get an address -- it's intended to be mobile, and this should
> work most places that you might go with it....
>   BUT
>   In the DHCP configuration of your router, you want to create a
> "reservation" (The router management might not use this term...),
> specifying the iPad's MAC (network hardware) address, and a specific IP
> address to always be issued to thst client.  So the iPad will always
> "just happen" to be given the same address via DHCP when it's at home.
>
>   one way that an "IP address conflict" can come about is if you try to
> configure a static address on a device, and that address is within a
> "pool" of addresses handed out by a DHCP server and not marked as a
> reservation (or reserved for some other client...).  Low-level network
> mechanisms map from IP addresses to (hardware) MAC addresses. and if a
> single IP address maps to more than one MAC address, odds are good that
> only one of those clients will be "seeing" most of the traffic trying to
> reach that IP address.  And clients who discover that some other MAC
> address is claiming their IP address will squawk.
>   So you *can* create an address conflict with what you're trying to do,
> but you shouldn't.
>
> David Gillett
> CCNP CISSP
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [PCBUILD] dhcp static ip
> From: Jacob Smith <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, December 15, 2013 10:31 am
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> I'm trying to set up vpn for my iPad with vpnbook.com. I've been trying
> to
> give my iPad a static IP, so that I can enable port forwarding
> once-and-for-all. Whatever I set the IP address to, it can't seem to
> connect. Is this one of those "IP conflicts" I've heard about? What can
> I
> do? The router is a linksys e1500.
>
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> Jacob Smith
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