[ale] Can I tell my Linksys router to always serve the same IP address?

[Brian Whigham]

What Linksys model are you using?

I'm using openWRT for this on my WRT54G.  If you are familiar with Linux 
and have a little time to figure out how to configure it, I would highly 
recommend it.

http://openwrt.org/

Brian

Jim Lynch wrote:

>I'd really like to have each machine in my network have a predictible IP 
>address, but I also really like the idea that DHCP does more than give 
>an IP address (such as furnish DNS info also) so I don't want to just 
>set up static IPs for each machine. I'll never have more systems than 
>there are available IP addresses, so I really don't need for the router 
>to expire the addresses.  So can I tell it to not expire or in some 
>other way tell it to keep the same IP for a specific MAC address forever?
>
>Thanks,
>Jim.
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