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Subject: Making my PC's IP address stay the same Date: Fri Oct 20 2023 05:38 am
From: MRO To: Jnorton

  Re: Making my PC's IP address stay the same
  By: Jnorton to All on Thu Oct 19 2023 04:05 pm

 > Hi:

 > I have several devices on my router, and, the router just assigns them an
 > address when the do a dhcp request.

 > My PC where I'm running Synchronet also gets assigned its address via dhcp.

 > Most of the time, it doesn't change, but, today, it just changed and I had to
 > go into my port forwarding and change all the internal addresses.

 > Is there a way I can keep the router from changing my address?  I know it is
 > possible to use a static ip in some cases, but, this machine is the only one
 > I care about its address staying the same.

 > Any thoughts?


if you're talking about assigning a permanent IP addy for an internal ip
address, you can do that via your OS.
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