Internal IP Address.

[RJ45]

I wonder why my Linksys BEFSR41 keeps switching the internal ip often... it never used to do it... and now it does it lots. I have set the lease time to 0 which is one day, and it usualy re-leases less then a day... if I turn of the DHCP server would that make a change... but that would not generate anymore internal IP's correct? well anyways if somebody could help me out please.

[Kik]

That's what DHCP generally does -- so just disable it, and then assign static IP's manually - which you'll only have to do once.

--- NIC Configuration --- ( configure in the tcp/ip properties tab for your LAN connection )

IP address - 192.168.1.100
Subnet mask - 255.255.255.0
default gateway - 192.168.1.1 ( routers ip )

DNS Servers - ( write down your ISP's DNS server addresses, and use them in here )

Apply, and you're all done. Do the same for all computers on your network that you want static IP addresses assigning to.

[RJ45]

See I just want it for the server, I don't care about the other comps on the network... and if I am running linux, how would I configure that?

[Stream]

Sounds to me like you have two dhcp-servers, if you're dhcp-clients recieve different ip's. (or, the one you have might be fu*ked :)

See, a helathy dhcp will lease the same IP to same MAC-adress *every* time..

I don't know about *your* linux, you don't even provide distro name, but in freebsd, set static IP's in /etc/rc.conf like this (maybe it can help you some, remember to disable dhcp in the same file):

ifconfig_fxp0="inet x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x"
defaultrouter="x.x.x.x"

you can always see the network status of your box by typing ifconfig and pressing enter. This is very basic stuff, rtfm'ing alittle would'nt hurt...