Some advice, please, on proper setup of static IPs

---

wrote:

Just for extra knowledge, if I may, what happens if I have more machines that I would like to reserve IPs for? I seem to have run up against a limit on my router. Are there other, more complicated/less desirable methods? Very curious here.

 

 

 

---

It's probably best to live within the limits of your router on this.  

But there is another way.  If your router uses 192.168.1.x addresses, then you have IP addresses 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.254 available (253 addresses).  The DHCP pool in your router has a starting and an ending address - as shown in this screen shot:  https://helpcenter.engeniustech.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004072868-Static-IP-addressing-is-recommended-in-most-access-point-deployments-is-it-okay-if-I-set-my-access-point-to-obtain-IP-address-and-reserve-it-on-the-router-setting-

So if you want to assign a static address w/o using the DHCP static table, you

set the ending IP address to a smaller value than .254  That gives you the range of addresses that the router will never assign.

• assign addresses in that address range manually in your devices.  
• You'll also need to manually enter the gateway address (your router's LAN address), and the subnet mask (usually 255.255.255.0 on a home network). 
• And you'll need to assign a DNS server.  With most home routers you can assign the router LAN address (since the most routers act as DNS proxies).

You need to be careful not to use the same address twice, and if you make mistakes in the gateway, subnet mask, or DNS server you generally won't be able to access the internet.  FWIW, you'd configure this info on an OS-6 ReadyNAS by going to the network page and then clicking on the settings wheel of the ethernet adapter.  Then look on the IPv4 page.