[CoLoCo] Home network setup

[John Edwards]

My wireless router, which is hanging off of my DSL router, handles DHCP for
my network.  Only one machine has a fixed IP, and that's my personal PC
because I use Bittorrent, and have port forwarding set to go to that IP.
Any MAC address that is capable of connecting gets an IP address assigned to
it.

I have MAC address filtering on, but no other security, mainly because I've
never been able to get it to work properly.  If we have anyone visit who
needs to access the network, I can always add them in.


John Edwards


On Nov 2, 2007 3:37 PM, Kenneth D Weinert <kenw at quarter-flash.com> wrote:

> I'm just curious how people set things up at home.
>
> I'm thinking that permanent machines (permanent in the sense that they
> belong to the family whether they be laptop or desktop) should have
> fixed IPs and if you have visitors with their own machines that you
> should leave DHCP enabled on a different address range.
>
> I think this because I have a machine that serves a printer and it needs
> to be seen both from other Linux boxes and my daughter's Windows box.
> There's also a storage box and since I work back and forth between the
> desktop and the laptop it's easier to keep files synced if they have
> permanent names/IPs.
>
> Or is there a better way to manage this that I'm just not thinking of?
>
> Thanks for any pointers, either in direct advice or web info.
>
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