Assign specific IP addresses to certain devices...

[DJ...]

EDIT: NEVERMIND. I SORTED IT OUT AFTER FINDING SOME STATIC IP ADDRESS LINKS ON GOOGLE...

How do I do this? I have a few old cellphones and tablets that I use as remote controls for my media centre devices around the house, however I find I have to change the host settings in them all of the time as each machine keeps changing IP addresses whenever it reconnects to the router.

How do I assign a certain IP address to a certain device permanently?

I need to do this on 3 Windows 7 machines, 1 XP machine, 1 Mac and 1 Openelec box...

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Learning are we?

 

[HavocXphere]

Also...routers can reserve IPs. Helps prevent ip conflicts w/ static ips.

 

[Wyzak]

A decent DHCP server can also assign IPs based on MAC addresses.

 

[Messugga]

A decent DHCP server can also assign IPs based on MAC addresses.

That introduces a single point of failure though. If your DHCP server fails, be it a router or a full-blown computer, all your devices that rely on static IPs' network connectivity will fail until your reconfigure the static IPs. If your DHCP server fails and you have static IPs configured on a device-level, you probably won't even notice anything.

Personally, I have a mixture of static and dynamic IP addresses on my network. My servers and HTPC, etc have static IPs so that I always know where to find them and then everything else, particularly everything that connects via WIFI (So phones, tablets... generally client sort of devices) have dynamic IPs.

 

[DJ...]

That introduces a single point of failure though. If your DHCP server fails, be it a router or a full-blown computer, all your devices that rely on static IPs' network connectivity will fail until your reconfigure the static IPs. If your DHCP server fails and you have static IPs configured on a device-level, you probably won't even notice anything.

Personally, I have a mixture of static and dynamic IP addresses on my network. My servers and HTPC, etc have static IPs so that I always know where to find them and then everything else, particularly everything that connects via WIFI (So phones, tablets... generally client sort of devices) have dynamic IPs.

That's exactly how I've set this up now. HTPCs have static IPs and all other PCs, phones and tablets connect with dynamic IPs, mostly because I didn't see the point in using static IPs for them...