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re: IP conflic although static IP assigned on network
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 6:52 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ari
(1207 messages posted)
DHCP runs on your router, hands out IP addresses to devices on your network that
ask for IP addresses. If you have not assigned a static IP address to a device,
then it will ask for an IP address from the router. If the router's pool of IP addresses
available for DHCP overlaps the addresses you've assigned statically, then you'll
get conflicts.
So, you can either:
1) Not assign any static IP addresses to any devices, and let them all get their
IP addresses from the router using DHCP;
2) Assign EVERY device a static IP address;
3) Make sure that the pool of DHCP addresses available from the router does not overlap
the IP addresses you're assigning statically to your devices.
So, for #3, if you are statically giving your devices addresses like 192.168.1.2,
and 192.168.1.3, and so on, and you have fewer than ten devices, you could set the
router to hand out DHCP addresses in the range 192.168.1.110 - 192.168.1.150 or something.
McAfee Security Center is irrelevant to WEP. WEP is a form of encryption used by
wireless networks, where you store a passkey on the router, and make sure that all
the machines that communicate with the router use the same passkey. It's what you
did when you set up WEP. If your router and all your machines are capable of WPA
(a newer and better form of encryption), just use that instead...it's much much harder
to crack. Step one would be to take a look in the setup screens of your router,
under "Encryption" or "Security," and see if it offers WPA as an option instead of
WEP.
On Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 6:01 am, Hilton wrote:
>Thanks for the replies. Following you advice I found the printer, which was wired
>to my PC had the same IP addressed assigned. I have changed it and there is no more
>conflict. Problem resolved - thanks. DHCP was turned on at my router, I have now
>turned this off following your advice. I don't actually know what this is or does.
>You mention WEP is easily cracked - help how do I protect against this? I have McAfee
>security Centre suite installed, will this help?
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