Re: Static IP outside of router DHCP range

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:59:17 -0400, "Smarty" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I am using an older and very stable Linksys WRT54G router and have DHCP
enabled for the clients. One of my router's current DHCP clients is a video
server which gets a fresh IP address occasionally when the router or video
server is re-booted.

This creates a problem, since the 8 video clients which connect to this
video server have very limited ability to recover from changes to the video
server IP address change. They are small embedded Hauppauge media boxes
which cannot easily find the revised video server address, and have no way
to easily reboot themselves from the video server.

I would like to fix the video server IP address to a static IP outside the
range of the Linksys router DHCP server, but still in the same subnet as the
router. Specifically, I would like to put the video server at 192.168.1.150
as a static IP address, and only allow the DHCP server in the Linksys to
serve addresses from 192.168.1.100 through 192.168.1.149.

This should allow my 8 video clients to ALWAYS see their video server at
192.168.1.150 regardless of whether the router had to be re-booted or the
video server had to be rebooted.

Is there any reason why I can't do this? I am specifically concerned that
the Linksys will only route to those addresses it has dynamically assigned
via DHCP, and will not route to those above that range.

Is this a legitimate concern?

In a word, No.

Many thanks in advance for guidance.

There may be another option that I haven't seen suggested in this
thread. You may find your router can be configured to give out the
same IP address always to your server. I use this with an XBOX (which
doesn't allow static IP addresses).

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