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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 761620" data-attributes="member: 109222">AW: Static IP Address adviceHi.If ever the DHCP server stops working, my server and all other PC keeps their IP as long as I don't completely restart them (what I did not often do). Lease time is set to forever... I also can shut down (restart) the router and all my PC are still reachable... I often have &quot;alien&quot; PC as guests in my network (I'm repairing them) it's really hard to have a network without DHCP...And as long as I use this setup I never had any DHCP issues... Also I'm using mostly &quot;cheap&quot; routers, I never encountered any problems with this. The first &quot;normal&quot; router was from Aldi (Medion), is still working without trouble since 2003 now. It was only changed due lack of high speed Wlan and does his job now at a friends place to bring his smartphone to DSL... Before that I'm using a 386 based Linux- PC as router. Actually I use an Edimax GPRS Router (35€) as I don't have any high speed internet over here. Never encountered any issues with DHCP at all. And, as I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S I9000 Android phone I'm not able to kill DHCP at all...I'm completely able to setup a complex network without DHCP. I have done this often, but why should I do this at home? Fixed IP addresses are important for lots of network related things. But this did not mean not to use the comfort of DHCP...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 761620, member: 109222"] [b]AW: Static IP Address advice[/b] Hi. If ever the DHCP server stops working, my server and all other PC keeps their IP as long as I don't completely restart them (what I did not often do). Lease time is set to forever... I also can shut down (restart) the router and all my PC are still reachable... I often have "alien" PC as guests in my network (I'm repairing them) it's really hard to have a network without DHCP... And as long as I use this setup I never had any DHCP issues... Also I'm using mostly "cheap" routers, I never encountered any problems with this. The first "normal" router was from Aldi (Medion), is still working without trouble since 2003 now. It was only changed due lack of high speed Wlan and does his job now at a friends place to bring his smartphone to DSL... Before that I'm using a 386 based Linux- PC as router. Actually I use an Edimax GPRS Router (35€) as I don't have any high speed internet over here. Never encountered any issues with DHCP at all. And, as I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S I9000 Android phone I'm not able to kill DHCP at all... I'm completely able to setup a complex network without DHCP. I have done this often, but why should I do this at home? Fixed IP addresses are important for lots of network related things. But this did not mean not to use the comfort of DHCP... [/QUOTE]

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