Hello, World.

[theweaselking]

I... live..... AGAIN!

Or, more accurately, my computer survived the trip and has network access once more. Now I just need to make a few creative edits to the router settings to get myself a static IP again, and I will have all the comforts of home in my new home.

That being said, I will now quote jsbowden, and sing.

Deck the halls with wads of tissue
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la
Tis the season of health issues
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la
Quaff we now our medication
Fa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la
Kill the virus infestation
Fa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la

Comments

[dolston.livejournal.com]

You're weird.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Why are you trying to get a static ip?

[dolston.livejournal.com]

Likely, gaming.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. Once the router feeds me a static IP, it can begin port forwarding for all my happy toys.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

But the ip address won't change unless you start getting over a hundred computers or something. Or at least that's the case with any router I had.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

If the router is set to give IPs dynamically, then it does exactly that, and the exact method it does so is not particularly defined.

Some routers start at the beginning of their range and start issuing addresses in numeric order - so if two machines come online in a different order than they did last time, they'll get different IPs. Other routers pick a random unused IP from within their allowed range.

In general, the behaviour is unpredictable. A static setup *is* predictable, and predictable is good.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

All the ones that I've had just track the mac address, even if you power cycle the router *shrugs*

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Some of them do. The thing is, that's common and convenient behaviour, not *defined* behaviour - and so, any given router may or may not work by those rules, and it may or may not consistently follow those rules.

And when I can set myself statically in about two minutes, and never have to worry about who programmed the router or how they did it, I'm happy to spend those two minutes. I spend longer than that playing Total Annihilation to relax.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

BEWARE YOU LIVE

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I thought about trying to do the whole thing, but really, the first verse just came to me and I wasn't in the sort of mood at work this morning to try and force the rest. I think with some minor editing, the above could scan better, but I think I did okay for an on the fly composition.