Re: Static IP on DHCP system?

[Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 03:07:52PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote:
: On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:43:10PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
: > If my home router provides DHCP in the 192.168.0.100 range, is there anything
: > wrong with me statically assigning a 10.0.0.1 address to a box on the network?
: 
: That would put that and your router on different netblocks; it would
: likely route packets it doesn't know about out via it's default
: route.

So what about a very high 192.168.0.x address?  I don't want to set up a
server just for DHCP, nor do I want to have to ping my server every time I
reboot.


Jonathon McKitrick
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