Moving client & DHCP

[Kevin Flowers]

-----Original Message-----
From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On
Behalf Of Stephen H. Dawson
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 8:48 AM
To: 'David Reichard'; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: RE: Moving client & DHCP

Encourage you to upgrade to a better router.


Thanks,
SHD 

-----Original Message-----
From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On
Behalf Of David Reichard
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 01:46 EST
To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: Moving client & DHCP

My laptop is the VNC server. When the laptop is on my home network, I'd
like
to be able to access it with a VNC client.

My laptop gets its IP address from my home network's DHCP server. I can
find
out what the address is and use that to connect OK. But that address can
change. I wish it were a fixed address or name. 

I could set the TCP/IP properties on the laptop to a fixed IP but then
it
wouldn't be able to easily connect to other networks away from home. The
laptop has Windows XP Home. Maybe there's a way to set TCP/IP properties
per
connection.

I could use the laptop's network name, but that apparently only works if
both the client and server are on the same network. I actually have a
number
of networks at home, so that wouldn't always work.

It would be nice if I could tell the DHCP server to recognize the laptop
(by
MAC address?) and always assign the same IP. But I don't see how to do
that
on my BritePort 8124 ASDL DSL modem/router.

Any suggestions?




- David Reichard
radiodave "at" igc.org
415-366-7373
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8/3/2007, 
from: Kevin Flowers, kevin.f.flowers "at" contoso01.com,
to:     vnc-list "at" realvnc.com, vnc-list "at" realvnc.com