On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:56:08 UTC, Rod wrote:

Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:13:37 UTC, Harry Bloomfield
wrote:

Andy Burns has brought this to us :
On 28/08/09 20:50, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
New Vista laptop and I'm trying to find out....

1. The MAC of the wireless card, so I can allow it access via the router.

start "dos" window (cmd.exe) and type IPCONFIG /ALL
Thanks, got that set up now.

2. I also need to set up or give the laptop a specific IP number.
either reserve a specific IP address for the MAC address in the router's DHCP
config, or if that isn't allowed by the router, just manually assign IP
address on laptop instead of setting it for DHCP
DHCP can not be used, I must give the laptop a fixed IP. So how do I
get in to configure the laptops IP?

You do realise that DHCP can be used to hand out fixed IPs? I do it all
the time. You associate the IP with the MAC address in the DHCP server,
as stated above. Not that all DHCP servers support it...

Wholeheartedly agree. But there are a couple of downsides...

I found that sometimes a printer would get switched on when the router
was not. So it would end up with some odd IP. Cleared by simply
switching the printer off and on again.

And if you change your router, you have to set all the IPs up again. And
maybe it isn't the best time to do so because router replacement is all
too often unplanned.

Ah well...I don't use the DHCP server in the router!

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