On Feb 20, 2008 11:42 AM, Reid Rivenburgh <reidr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for the advice. I have a wired/wireless Netgear router that's > configured to dole out IP addresses to the laptops (and tivos) via > DHCP. It's always worked that way, and I never saw any reason to do > it differently before. Hopefully it can be configured as you describe > or I may need to rethink the whole thing. (I'm a networking novice, > really.) I realized I could check that now through the magic of X Windows. And yes, it looks like the router does let me assign the same IP address to a particular machine/MAC address. Thanks again, reid