On 29 March 2015 at 23:29, Nigel Verity <nigelver...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Just a minor question about local networking.... > > I routinely have a number of different devices connected to my home network > such as Ubuntu laptops, iPad, Android phone, Kindle, RPi and so on. The > router allocates local IP addresses to them as and when they connect. > Although those IP addresses are always within a very narrow range > (192.168.1.1 -> 12) they are not fixed. > > Is it normally possible to set a general purpose router to recognise a given > device and always allocate the same local IP address to it?
If your router does not provide the ability to lock a device to a specific IP address then, if you need this, one option is to configure each PC with its address (via Network Manager on each PC if using NM). If you do this then make sure the addresses you choose are outside the range of addresses that router is set up to allocate automatically. However, in case you did not know, Ubuntu provides the ability to reference devices by host name using host_name.local. So, for example, if you have named a pc called tigger, then from another machine you can do ping tigger.local so it may be that you do not need fixed ip addresses. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
