WOT: need computer help...., need to assign an IP address to a particular computer.... Options

[scottb]

on my network.

i have a linksys BEFSR41 and have 2 IP addresses through comcast (at least that is what they tell me).

i need to do the following:

find out my IP addresses

assign one of these addresses to my wifes work computer, and let the rest of the house use the other.


i have messed around within the router but as i don't know my ip addresses. i do an ipconfig and only get one ip address.

so any suggestions oh wise ones? my wife an i both work for the same company and the security system is such that only one log in per ip address is allowed (hence the need for 2).

hope this is clear enough....

thanks,

scott

[KaptKaos]

www.ipchicken.com will show you the IP address you are presenting to the outside world. This is one of the two public IPs that you have. Most residential ISPs do not give static IP addresses so this is a little different. Please confirm that you are getting two static IPs from your ISP.

If that is the case, you will need to statically assign one to the public port on your router. The other will need to be setup as a NAT (Network Address Translation) on your router and point to the Private IP address of your wife's PC.

In your router you will need to specify that you are using static internal addressing. Do not use 192.168.1.X as you local private network. Use 192.168.100.X with 255.255.255.0 as the subnet mask (full class C). You don't want to use the 192.168.1.X because some corporate networks use that too and a VPN connection may not work if that is the case.

On each PC you will need to statically assign IP addresses to each PC and the one on your wife's PC will need to correspond to that public IP that you NAT at the router. You PC can be any IP as long as its not the same as the wife's.

I hope this helps. PM me if you need more help. Something still doesn't seem right with this, but good luck anyways! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drunk.gif)