[CS-FSLUG] OT: router features

[Nathan T.]

On 4/19/06, Frank Bax <fbax at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> DHCP server that provides facility to pre-assign ip addresses outside the
> DHCP pool.  I'd like to configure the router as ip address 192.168.1.2;
> subnet mask 255.255.255.0 with a DHCP pool from 160-199.  When Doreen's
> machine asks for an ip address, give it 192.168.1.6; when Debb's machine
> asks for an ip address, give it 192.168.1.88.  I need this functionality
> for two reasons.
> 1) The office scanner will send scanner files to a specific ip address
> (which will be Doreen's machine).
> 2) Debb's machine need's VNC access from outside; router port forwarding
> works on ip address, not hostname.

I do that with my D-Link DI-524 at home; I have it set up with DHCP,
but I can also assign reserved ip addresses to specific computers and
I can use addresses outside of the ip space used for DHCP if I want.

You can see what I'm talking about here, in D-Link's "emulator"
http://support.dlink.com/emulators/di524/h_dhcp.html