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]

I'll say this again. Confirm that your ISP is giving you two STATIC IPs. If they are not static, then everything else we try to do is a waste of time.

Your router sits between your DSL/Cable modem and proxies your PCs to the internet. Right now, they both are using the same PUBLIC IP address. If you want both PCs to access the corporate network, they need to have dedicated PUBLIC IP addresses to proxy via the router. You need to program the router to do this via NAT. It should be able to do it, but it's useless to try if you don't have STATIC IPs from the ISP. If the ISP gives you dynamic IP addresses, then they may change over time, and that doesn't help you.

You could remove the router and connect the DSL/Cable Modem to the switch that the PCs connect to and allow the PCs to get IPs from the ISP via DHCP. This would work, but leave your PCs open on the public Internet, which is a bad idea.