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Some advice, please, on proper setup of static IPs
Hello friends, I have returned to my favorite forum for some good advice about static IPs on my network. I've done some studying and some tests and I understand how to set static IP on my NASs (plural) and machines. I'm just trying to be real careful so I want to post here and ask questions. I will try to make them intelligent as possible. To begin: I know that I should set my static IPs to be outside the range of the DHCP in my router. I actually tried that with my old NAS as an experiment. I set it to be outside that range, like 192.168.1.60. The NAS adopted it and the status panel confirmed this. Here's what happened: my router won't let me set that static IP because the old IP is still in the DHCP list. Do I need to turn off/on the router to clear out that list? Is that the next step? This sounds like a dumb question to me but I'm trying to be *real* careful. As always, any and all advice is very welcome. best Ken6.2KViews0likes14Comments