[SWLUG] hopefully easy question: naming machines on a tiny network

[Dave Cridland]

On Wed Jun  3 07:31:15 2009, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> I have a BT Voyager router (a few years old) & 3 machines. The  
> router
> always gives the machines the IP addresses 192.168.1.2,  
> 192.168.1.3, and
> 192.168.1.4. But not always the same number to the same machine. Is  
> it
> possible to tie each IP address to a particular machine (and  
> ideally to
> use names)? Two machines run Linux the other Mac OS X.

As everyone else says, there's basically three options:

1) Don't use DHCP.

2) Use DHCP, but fix the IP addresses of each machine.

3) Use dynamic DNS.

I'd be inclined to see if you can persuade the Voyager to only use a  
small range for DHCP, and then use the remainder for static IP  
address setup - it's overall a far simpler solution, on a small  
network.

Dave.
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