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Ok heres the story, I got the desktop and laptop with a linksys router, both show the same ip when online. I got another IP from comcast but its useless right now. I spent an hour on the phone with linksys changing shit and that didnt work. Comcast wants me to pay another monthly service and give me another modem for the laptop. Which would obviously give me 2 ips, thats not really the objective.

Tell me how I can have the laptop and desktop have different ip's while running the linksys. I have spent days trying and find it to be not possible. Give me the anser and I give you money. Ask any questions as I have gone over this shit 100 times with linksys and comcast.:321GFY

do you want different ips like
555.555.555.100
555.555.555.101

or
555.555.555.100
666.666.666.101

What model router? You may need to get a switch as most SOHO routers only handle one external IP.

this may help.... I only searched for a second but it helped me setup my router to my dsl with multiple computers...

http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/... pe=search_nl

http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/...Y2FzdA**&p_li=

I had the exact same problem with my wireless router and neither my ISP nor Linksys could help me either. I ended up buying a hub and I plugged the router into the hub and the desktop into the hub. Then I configured my laptop thru the wireless router and voila! If you use the hub though you will have to pay for a separate IP for each comp.

we need to talk cause this is fuckin pissin me off. Got ICQ

edit: got it

You have to have a separate modem that doesn't have an integrated router. The linksys router doesn't support two WAN IP's, only one. In the configuration above, the only good the router actually does is give you a firewall. If you didn't care about that, you could plug both PC's straght into the HUB/SWITCH and give each a static IP configuration with one of the two IP's.

.. but you won't make it work with only a single linksys router. It's a cheap home-office, single-IP router not designed to do what you want it to.

If you cant figure it out hit me up i will help you...:)

Howdy,,,Just a thought here,,,but I have a similar linksys set up.

I got a 4 port wireless router linked to an 8 port 10/100.

There has gotta be a way to make the 8 port route to 1 ip.

I'm gonna give the chinese guy a shout now and ask him,,,it's a good time to call him anyway,,,he hooks me with mary jane.

My Non technical answer would be to split the cable line and run separate routers.

Ok hold the fuck on Im gonna kill someone before this is over, thanks guys keep going with any suggestions

Contact me on ICQ.

this is really odd.

You should be able to plug both machines into the Linksys ports, and plug the cable modem into the WAN port.

Tell the linksys to act as a DHCP server

Tell your machines to use the DCHP server, and set the gateway to the IP address of the router (the internal address, NOT the address from Comcast - should be 192.168.1.1).

Each machine should then get it's own IP from the router, and using the router defaults, you should get 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3.

The only other change you should have to make to the router is if you want to run a web server or something on one of the machines. You'll need to tell the router what IP address to route traffic on a particular port. If the machine running a web server is 192.168.1.2, you'll need to set Port 80 to that IP in the port forwarding config section of the router.

If not, if all traffic starts at either machine and is outgoing (web, e-mail, ftp server, whatever), the router will handle forwarding the packets automagically.

This really should be a 5 minute process at the worst!

thanks a bunch guys:321GFY



:1orglaugh

just disable dhcp and set up the pc staticly and you should be fine...