Is it possible to have one of our networked PC's to keep using the same IP address (192.168.1.54) so that if the master computer or a failure / shutdown etc happens then the system IP addresses are not reset so i don't have to update all the other pc's hosts files to this PC's new IP address?
You will need to make a reservation based on the MAC address of your network card. You can find this by typing "ipconfig /all" inside the command prompt.
The IP addresses can be reserved on your router or on your server depending on how they are distributed.
You should solve this in the DHCP server (typically in your router), make a reserved IP for the mac-address of the PC in question. Or you configure the PC to not use DHCP but configure a fixed IP. But that should be, if possible, an IP that is not in the DHCP range.
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Hello Everyone!
I want to know that is there any way to access a photocopier machine which is connected to a computer through Ethernet wire and that computer is connected to my WiFi network?
P.S: What if I don't know the IP assigned to that Photocopier machine?
If the wireless network is part of the wired network you should have any problem reaching the photocopier.
If you don't know the IP address, you can reach it by host name if the DHCP and DNS are working properly. If you are on an Active Directory infrastructure and DHCP and DNS are integrated it should be transparent.
If you are on your home with a "home" router they usually do the hostname to IP resolve (DNS).
You can nslookup hostname in your machine to see if your dns is resolving the ip address. you can also ping hostname or ping ip address to test that you can reach the desired host. Some hosts block ping (ICMP) requests, please note that ping is ping does not respond is not a definitive solution.
Please note that in your home router you should use your router or default gateway to be the DNS also, and then add the google public DNS or your ISP.
Also when connecting the access point to an existing network you may have 2 DHCP servers providing IP addresses to hosts, you should disable DHCP on the Access Point and connect the AP to the network using the switch port and not the WAN port (the WAN port will try to do NAT and assign a different set of IP addresses).
I'm working on a project which enables a web-based server which is accessible through 127.0.0.1:8081.
But I am not really able to understand the concept of the ip address. Does it mean the address is only available from the device which opens up the server, or across the whole LAN on any computer connected to that same router?
127.0.0.1 is a special IP address that refers to your local machine. Localhost resolves to this address. If you want to make your server accessible from the web or a different machine you will have to use a routable IP address.
Let's say the DHCP SCOPE IS 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.255. The DHCP server will normally assign IP addresses dynamically in a sequenced order. What is the next IP in the sequence has been assigned to a node statically. Is the DHCP going to recognize that the IP is in use although it was not assigned by the DHCP server itself? Or is it going to assign the IP regardless and in that case it would cause an IP conflict?
Logically I would say it won't assign the statically in use IP but I'm asking this question because I never read something about it. Please include references if possible.
Thank You!
You can have IP conflits in you network if you assign direct in an computer in your network and the router (for example) decides to give the same IP to another machine.
What I usually do to have fixed ips in my server is put an IP reserv in my router, binding with the server MAC Addres.
Im new to networking,If I have a window server and in that server I have a normal soho router, will that server assign the ip address to each device? or will that router do it. What I've learned is that the server is suppose to be the DHCP but sometimes if you plug a router directly in the server it kicks the server off and the router starts to assign the ip address. If that is so, how would you fix that?
Most routers will take on the role of a DHCP Server out-of-the-box. That is, they will distribute ip addresses to whatever DHCP Client requests an address.
By default, a Windows server will not have set up a fully configured DHCP Server.
By default a Windows machine (either client or server) and most other networked devices will have set their network interface to be a DHCP Client.
Therefore, by simply plugging in your Windows server to one of your router's LAN ports will make the router set the Windows server's network interface to the next available ip address using DHCP.
If you were to connect more devices to the router's LAN ports it will still be the router that assigns those extra devices an ip address.
Ideally you want only one DHCP server in your network.
Also, if you want your Windows server to always have the same ip address you can do two things:
Log in to the router and set a fixed ip address for your Windows server network card's unique MAC address.
Modify the router's DHCP range (e.g. from .10 to .200) so it leaves some addresses free (e.g. .1 to .9 and from .201 to .254). Then set your Windows server network card's fixed IPV4 address to a fixed address (e.g. .210). You may also need to set a DNS server then.
This is only briefly skimming the subject of IPV4 networks, DHCP and friends so when you have some time try to read the wikipedia pages for them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol
Server assigns your public IP address, in fact it assigns your router a public IP address.
While the router assigns each device connected a local IP address.
With respect to your router, the IP address server assigns it is its IPv4 address and the addresses router assigns to its clients are IPv6 address.
When you browse the internet through your router, the router reads your requests and responds according to that IPv6 address and when the router requests something to the server, server sees it as its IPv4 address. :)
I'm new to dnsmasq and networking isn't my strong point, hopefully i'm missing something simple.
I have a Ubuntu laptop running dnsmasq. The laptop's WiFi is connected to the Internet, the laptop's ethernet is connected to a LAN.
Plugging my machine into the LAN I am assigned an IP address by the laptop. Accessing www.google.com on my machine gets picked up the laptop and i'm served the laptops Apache page, which is my desired result. The problem is I can't access any other website, Destination Host Unreachable.
I'd like the laptop running dnsmasq to allow my machine to resolve DNS queries normally and only be restricted when accessing www.google.com.
My dnsmasq.conf is the default except:
address=/www.google.com/192.168.0.1
interface=eth0
dhcp-range=192.168.0.50,192.168.0.150,12h
I've a feeling it might be related to the IP settings on each network?
The WiFi has a static IP 192.168.1.55 taking to the router at 192.168.1.1 and the DNS server at 192.168.1.10.
The ethernet is configured manually with an IP 192.168.0.1 setting the router as the WiFi IP 192.168.1.55 and the same for the DNS server 192.168.1.55.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Pete
After a lot of fiddling, this was related to iptables and not dnsmasq.