WRT54G and Static Clients

How do I tell my WRT54G with Linksys firmware (8.00.2) to always
assign certain IP's to certain MACs (or hostnames)?

I need to know that certain hardwired and wireless devices are at
certain static IP's, while the rest can use DHCP.

This kind of setup was pretty straight-forward on the D-Links
(mapping IP's to MACs), but I don't see how to do it on the
Linksys.

Do I just set up my devices to have static IP's and let them tell
the router this? And then exclude those IP's from the DHCP pool?
That didn't work for my Brother printer, at least (can't find how
to set hostname). Haven't tried it with a PC.

-sw

Sqwertz wrote:
> How do I tell my WRT54G with Linksys firmware (8.00.2) to always
> assign certain IP's to certain MACs (or hostnames)?
>
> I need to know that certain hardwired and wireless devices are at
> certain static IP's, while the rest can use DHCP.
>
> This kind of setup was pretty straight-forward on the D-Links
> (mapping IP's to MACs), but I don't see how to do it on the
> Linksys.
>
> Do I just set up my devices to have static IP's and let them tell
> the router this? And then exclude those IP's from the DHCP pool?
> That didn't work for my Brother printer, at least (can't find how
> to set hostname). Haven't tried it with a PC.

The Linksys firmware does not have the capability of assigning IP by MAC. You have two options:
(1) use static IP's that are outside the DHCP range. The default DHCP range on a WRT54G is
192.168.1.100-149. On my system, I have a Linux server at 192.168.1.50, and an HP printer at
192.168.1.3. The only thing the router knows about these 2 devices is that I do some port forwarding
from outside to the server. My other computers use DHCP.

(2) Use 3rd-party software such as openWRT or DD-WRT on your WRT54G.

Larry

"Sqwertz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> How do I tell my WRT54G with Linksys firmware (8.00.2) to always
> assign certain IP's to certain MACs (or hostnames)?
>
> I need to know that certain hardwired and wireless devices are at
> certain static IP's, while the rest can use DHCP.
>
> This kind of setup was pretty straight-forward on the D-Links
> (mapping IP's to MACs), but I don't see how to do it on the
> Linksys.
>
> Do I just set up my devices to have static IP's and let them tell
> the router this? And then exclude those IP's from the DHCP pool?
> That didn't work for my Brother printer, at least (can't find how
> to set hostname). Haven't tried it with a PC.
>

just assign the static IP at the device - and make it outside the DHCP pool
If the "printer", print server, or other "device"
has an interface to setup an IP address,
it might internally create a hostname... usually from the MAC address or serial
number.

On Nov 3, 5:52 pm, Sqwertz <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote:
> How do I tell my WRT54G with Linksys firmware (8.00.2) to always
> assign certain IP's to certain MACs (or hostnames)?
>
> I need to know that certain hardwired and wireless devices are at
> certain static IP's, while the rest can use DHCP.
>
> This kind of setup was pretty straight-forward on the D-Links
> (mapping IP's to MACs), but I don't see how to do it on the
> Linksys.
>
> Do I just set up my devices to have static IP's and let them tell
> the router this? And then exclude those IP's from the DHCP pool?
> That didn't work for my Brother printer, at least (can't find how
> to set hostname). Haven't tried it with a PC.
>
> -sw

The answer is to another brand. Linksys is a rip. They make cheap crap
and laugh when you want help. The reason their is no support is
because their products are so cheap they are unfixable.

On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:11:41 GMT, P.Schuman wrote:

> just assign the static IP at the device - and make it outside the DHCP pool
> If the "printer", print server, or other "device"
> has an interface to setup an IP address,
> it might internally create a hostname... usually from the MAC address or serial
> number.

Thanks Larry and P. I figured it was probably something fairly
simple, just never used the Linksys before.

And no thanks to you, flamestar.

-sw