why am i getting assigned 192.168.1.149 from my router?

[gopunk]

have router in apartment, wifi is secured, and there are only a couple other clients (my roommates) on the network. why is my router assigning an ip at the very end of the range (starts at 192.168.1.100 with limit of 50)? our internet has been flaky lately and i wonder if this is related... is it somehow thinking that there are clients still connected when they aren't? i'm running dd-wrt on a linksys wrt54gl.

 

[InlineFive]

It depends on the algorithm that the DHCP server uses, as long as it doesn't tread on the broadcast range it won't cause any problems.

 

[c3p0]

Originally posted by: InlineFive
It depends on the algorithm that the DHCP server uses, as long as it doesn't tread on the broadcast range it won't cause any problems.

That may be true, but the question is why is the router assigning ip's from the end of the range. I know mine doesn't. Sorry, I don't have any help for you. I'm sure one of the network guru's will be along shortly to help sort this all out.

c3p0
:beer:

 

[gopunk]

ah ok, thanks. what do you mean by "tread on the broadcast range"?

 

[BKLounger]

what happens when you put another machine on teh network? What ip does it get. Is it pulling in 192.168.1.148?

 

[thirdlegstump]

a lot of dhcp servers do that. assign ip's from the end of the range. nothing to worry about.

 

[Tarrant64]

If it works, it works, right?

I too would like to know why some routers do this and why some don't. Is this a case where if I had two routers of the same type, and one assigned IP's from the begin range and the other from the end range? If so, it would be good to know why.

 

[ITPaladin]

If you wanted to, and your router is capable of it, you could do DHCP reservation of IP addresses if it bothers you.