Re: Router incompatibility with Vista

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:05:38 +0000, Mark McIntyre wrote:

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:44:02 +0000, in uk.telecom.broadband , Dead
Paul <dead_paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:11:35 +0000, Mark McIntyre wrote:

Firstly you can set the lease time to be long, and sometimes infinite.

So it's not quite as straight forward as the "plug in and forget"
methodology so strongly advocated here.

Yes, its quite as straightforward.

Adding another variable to a system is always an added complication.
If you have to do x and y to make something happen then adding z to the
formula makes it yet more complicated and don't forget we are talking
about really dumb people here who cannot understand or cannot be bothered
to learn how to port forward properly.

Secondly, by default DHCP will re-offer the same address unless its
not available. On a home network that circumstance would be highly
unlikely.

Exactly! With computers being halted and brought up everyday the odds
are you could get the wrong ip.

No. If you have more than 255 devices or set a small pool, you'd need
to reuse IPs. Otherwise the router will reissue the same addresses.

If you use DHCP and your windows networking is set up for dhcp then you
are not guaranteed any particular number at all. If you have set up your
windows networking for static ip but your router is still offering to dhcp
then windows may somehow negotiate the number it wants - i do not know
about that myself as I think it is a stupid thing to do. If you are able
to set up windows for static ip then you should be able to tell your
router to switch its dhcp server off as well.

Therefore if you have a home network and
you use the routers firewall you are best off using static ips with your
port forwarding.

IMHO thats a false conclusion from misinterpreted data.

If a router forwards packets on specific ports to specific ips and it does
not do this based on macs then you simply have to use static ips. It's as
simple as that and it is the logical and technically correct way to do it.


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