Need help figuring out how to get/set a certain IP address

lancelott · Apprentice Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 152

My IP was 192.168.0.3 previously. I reinstalled and it's 192.168.0.7. I connect to my DSL gateway on 192.168.0.1. The thing is, why did it change? And is there any way I can get back .3? I'm using DHCP. I've never setup network any other way because I'm not really familiar.

Could someone please help? Thanks.
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Desktop: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2.15GHz | 7600GT 256MB | 320GB + 250GB SATA 3.0 | Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer | Gentoo Linux amd64
Server: Intel Pentium 2 MMX 350MHz | 30GB HDD | Gentoo Linux x86

magic919 · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:39 am Post subject:

Assuming your DSL gateway is the DHCP/router you'll need to get on the admin interface for that and take a look. Mine can reserve IPs for certain machines.

lancelott · Apprentice Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 152

magic919 · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:32 am Post subject:

That's a pretty basic device and you seem to be limited to DHCP On or Off. You'd have to consider turning it off and doing DHCP on your Gentoo machine versus static IPs. You could move the start address to .10 and give the Gentoo a static lower than that.