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Originally Posted by bigrich1976
Hi,
I was wondering if somebody could help me, i have four pc's on a wireless networks. secuirty is provided by mac address filtering and i want to assign static ip's to each pc. i have rules set up for port forwarding designated to specific ip addresses but i keep getting different ip addresses.
am i right in thinking to do this i would need to disable DHCP in the router config page. and then on each pc right click the network card i use and specify the IP address i want along with subnet mask and default gateway being the router ip address?
Cheers.
Rich
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In answer to the question of how to create a static ip (because I couldnt see anyone answer this):
On each pc requiring a static address:
start > control panel > network connections > right click the connection the pc uses, select properties > General tab > theres an adapter icon with a configure button (click it) > then advanced tab of new properties page and look down the list of properties for one like "Network Address" (click on it and fill in the dotted quad i.e 10.0.0.1 in the value box)
This is useful when hosting a particular service from a particular machine (like a http server) so you do not have to expose all the pcs on your network to port 80 or w/e
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Originally Posted by Aragorn
MAC address filtering is pretty easy to break if you want to.
I would recommend you use WPA encyption if the router/cards support it.
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MAC Address filtering easy to break - any links to this? or proof of concept on methodology? I think your talking about MAC address spoofing (not hard) but the main part is getting the correct MAC to begin with. If your behind a Hardware firewall you should not be able to do this so please tell.
and WPA is for Wireless data encryption? not quite the same as the question asked and not to be confused as anything to do with static ip adressing.
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Originally Posted by bigrich1976
Hi all,
All working ok, I have left DHCP enabled and set the dns as the router ip address and it seems to work ok.
security is provided by mac address list in my linksys router, is that ok? would it be easy to break. to be fair i live in a sleepy village so not overly worried abt security and neither are my neighbours judging by the amount of unsecured networks around  |
DHCP should be on and thats what takes care of the handing out of IPS to each connected machine BUT DNS should be the IP of your ISP DNS server (assuming you dont have a dns server set up in your LAN^^)