[Discussion] Router installation

[Julian Thomas]

On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:12:23 -0800 Joyce E. Clarke wrote:
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>> In this case, do what I did and assign the computers fixed IP addresses and put them 
>>all in a hosts file on all systems.
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>They're already set up that way for the network I have now.
>Will using the router's DHCP function change anything?

Just be sure that the dhcp range in the router is higher than the fixed addresses, and that 
everything matches up with the new subnet.

If the machines are using one machine now as a gateway, and you assign the router to that 
address, that machine will need to get a new IP address and that needs to be set in the hosts 
files; also it needs to set the new gateway address.

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