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Franz Mad A Premium join:2003-06-24 Saint Louis, MO ·Charter Pipeline	Re: Router that can assign a specific IP by MAC said by Rob : The WRT54G stock firmware does not support this. However, the Tomato and DD-WRT firmware for the WRT54G do allow you to assign the same IP to a device based on MAC address. For Tomato, it's under Static DHCP. How safe is this? Any chance I will "brick" my router? Will I lose any features? -- Insert wisdom here...
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Re: Router that can assign a specific IP by MAC

1) Depends on how you define 'safe'.
2) Of course - when flashing to ANY newer firmware (even Linksys) there is a chance at bricking the router. In the Linksys forum here at DSLR there are ways to possibly unbrick the router.
3) Nope - you generally gain a lot more features. Here is a link to the Wiki on versions of DDWRT and their features: »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRT

Info for Tomato: »www.polarcloud.com/tomato

permalink · 2009-01-02 22:31:16 · Print ·

sheiker

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said by Franz

said by Rob

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The WRT54G stock firmware does not support this.

However, the Tomato and DD-WRT firmware for the WRT54G do allow you to assign the same IP to a device based on MAC address.

For Tomato, it's under Static DHCP.

How safe is this?
Any chance I will "brick" my router?
Will I lose any features?

DD-WRT can turn your $40-$50 router into a router that would normally cost $150+.

I have a WRT54GL that I bought specifically to put the regular sized DD-WRT on it. It does what you are looking for, plus, oh, so much more!

I HIGHLY recommend it!

And as was already mentioned, there is a slight risk in bricking the router, but its very very slight. If you follow the directions on the DD-WRT site, you will be fine.

permalink · 2009-01-03 04:47:25 · Print ·

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