Re: [OT] Tracing the cause of a duplicate IP

["Ho Yin Ng" <architect.hoyin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can I ask why you all have DHCP on? Can you not set the Sonos players
to a
static IP?

I have all my equipment set to static IP, and secured access via
recognition
of the MAC address.

What are the advantages of having dynamic IP addresses?

Ho yin

On 08/01/07, White, Peter <peter.white@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Same here, though my Netgear router handles static IPs differently
to
> the
> Linksys that it's just replaced, in that I don't have to set a fixed
IP on
> the devices, instead I just leave them as DHCP, but reserve the IP on
the
> router set-up, so that when it gets an address request, it looks at
the
> MAC,
> and then assigns either a fixed (if it's on the reserved list) or
dynamic
> address. Maybe that's normal for routers these days, but it's a new
one on
> me.
>
> Probably nothing to do with the issue, but I am getting a lot of lost
> packets (i.e. 20-25%) when on wireless (even when the notebook is sat
3ft
> from the router), which I suspect is down to a faulty router, though
> Netgear
> are not in full agreement, yet.
>
> Pete
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark McCall [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx<lists%40automatedhome.co.uk>]
>
> Sent: 08 January 2007 09:53
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Tracing the cause of a duplicate IP
>
> > Could well be then, I've got 4 ZPs at the moment
>
> Hmmm, sounds likely then. My dynamic IPs are handed out on the .100
and
> above range. All my machines us static IPs except the Laptop - and
that's
> the machine I get the message on sometimes. Last time I looked it had
the
> .100 address which was probably already in use by a ZP.
>
> M.
>
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