Static IP on a Switch?

CharmPeddler

CharmPeddler

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i have redone the network here at work for the 7 computers. the network now does this...
-modem
-ROUTER linksys 4port
-SWITCH D-Link 8port
-7 computers
im thinking of setting them all up as Static I.P.. i not messed with dedicated switch's before, im used to logging into a router. how do i set up the switch for static? or can i?

INFO: one of the computers acts as our file server for Autocad drawings
i am making an asumeing that by doing this it will benefit me some how... although im not really sure why lol.

can anyone give me some input, or a lil schooling. thanks for the help
 
Hi, setting up static ips only really offers the benefit of management, with DHCP ips change so your never sure who has what without checking or resolving their computername (if you know it) However giving your computers and file server static ips gives you the benefit of knowing what system has what ip, although generally computernames are easier to remember and will never change.

Also you wont need do anything with your switch, although you cant anyway since it is not a layer 3 managed switch, therefore the config is fixed and cannot be changed.
 
You cannot assign an IP to a switch, it does not need an IP. All they do is forward traffic based on destination.

Now corporate switches are different, such as layer 3 switches and Cisco switches which can have IP's assigned to different VLAN's and such.
 
ya, i knew that the switch doesnt have an ip and such. but i wasnt sure about changing the settings in there. so sense it "only relays" the info, can i go ahead and put the comps into static ip mode with out hurting anything? do i need to go into the router and tell it to recognize static ip? or do i not need to because the switch is in there?
 
theres nothing you can change on the switch so thats not an issue, nothing on the router needs changing either. changing to static ip's wont harm anything providing your using unique ip addresses.
 
Switches are traffic cops. They just direct network traffic. The IP address of the computer is like a street address. It has nothing to do with a switch, router or otherwise, really... Save for the fact that routers have the ability to dynamically assign IP addresses to computers. That's fine and all, unless you want to do port forwarding.
 
[-0MEGA-];895518 said:
You cannot assign an IP to a switch, it does not need an IP. All they do is forward traffic based on destination.

Now corporate switches are different, such as layer 3 switches and Cisco switches which can have IP's assigned to different VLAN's and such.
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True in a sense, not entirely true in another. Your comment about VLANs is 100% true but that is with managed switches.

If you use third party firmware like DD-WRT on your consumer router there is a technology called static DHCP, where you can assign an IP to a MAC address on your network and it will be leased that same IP every time regardless, while the rest of your network runs DHCP. I use it at home because I want all wireless clients to be DHCP as well as some other network devices but want my ODM and a few other work stations to be static. That is how I accomplished it.

check out

www.dd-wrt.com
 
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