I'm stuck!. How to assign IP via MAC on WRT54GS

Paolo

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Actually 2 problems:
1) I upgraded the linksys WRT54gs firmware to Satori 4 in hopes of taking advantage of getting fixed IPs
assigned to the 5 computers on my home network (4 wired, 1 wireless).
I thought that this firmware would allow DHCP to automatically assign IPs via their MAC's, which it
still might, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do that. I have been to dslreports forums, linksysinfo.org and other sites, read the sveasoft guides ,googled it. I think its done via the DHCPd submenu of the Management tab, but I need the walkthru guide (spelled n-o-o-b) of how its done.

2) I had my DSL provider (Broadlink, a wireless antennae DSL) change my service to bypass their
firewall so that I could use the Linksys WRT54gs firewall and be able to port forward thru it as need be.
So despite checking twice w/ them that I was bridged past their FW and trying to portforward w/ or w/o
the router FW up and even setting up my pc as a DMZ essentially all ports are closed or stealthed
when checking w/ grc.com or pcflank.com. I am portforwarding to the ip of the individual pc as
assigned by DHCP (e.g. 192.168.1.101). I am running winXP sp2 and the XP FW is turned off. There is
no software FW installed. I am lost on this one too. :(
 

vexingv

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in response to number 1, ip based on MAC is available under the "administration" tab. scroll down, its around the middle of the page.

as for number 2...i'm just way too confused..