D7000v2 changing my pc ip address everytime it reboots ?

[Wills1954]

I run a mirc prog on my descktop and have portforwarding on my D7000v2 AC1900 every time it reboots or drops the connections it changes my ip of my descktop and I have to keep rechanging the forwarding ip so I can send work files on this program. Any idears of why or how this happens. Thanks in advance.

[antinode · Accepted solution]

> [...] every time it reboots or drops the connections it changes my ip
[address] of my descktop [...]

   I'd expect that. The "D" in "DHCP" stands for "dynamic".  If you
want a device to have the same address always, as, for example, when
it's a port-forwarding target server, then you could reserve an address
for it.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM

   Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation.  Get the User Manual.  Read.  Look for "Forward
Incoming Traffic for a Default Service or Application", where I see:

      The server computer must always receive the same IP address.  To
      specify this setting, use the reserved IP address feature.  See
      Manage Reserved LAN IP Addresses on page 147.

[antinode · Accepted solution]

> [...] every time it reboots or drops the connections it changes my ip
[address] of my descktop [...]

   I'd expect that. The "D" in "DHCP" stands for "dynamic".  If you
want a device to have the same address always, as, for example, when
it's a port-forwarding target server, then you could reserve an address
for it.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM

   Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation.  Get the User Manual.  Read.  Look for "Forward
Incoming Traffic for a Default Service or Application", where I see:

      The server computer must always receive the same IP address.  To
      specify this setting, use the reserved IP address feature.  See
      Manage Reserved LAN IP Addresses on page 147.

[Wills1954]

page 147 yep got ya thanks heaps. 🙂