Static IP on DHCP system?

[Brian Reichert]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:43:10PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> If my home router provides DHCP in the 192.168.0.100 range, is there anything
> wrong with me statically assigning a 10.0.0.1 address to a box on the network?

That would put that and your router on different netblocks; it would
likely route packets it doesn't know about out via it's default
route.

You won't be able to adminster your router from within your LAN,
and hopefully your ISP is filtering RFC1918 addresses. :)

> Jonathon McKitrick
> --
> My other computer is your Windows box.

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