Site specific IP addressing

[mdeh]

I wonder if the members can offer some input. I have been trying to do this for a while, but have never come up with a good answer.

Here at home, I use fixed IP addressing (for a number of reasons). I want to "Pre-set" my wife's laptop so that when she is at, for example a meeting, she can hook into a network that uses DHCP addressing. Up to now, the fix has invariably been for her to find someone that manually goes in and changes the settings from fixed to DHCP. I would really like to set it up so this happens automatically so that the laptop just "finds" the correct setting under both circumstances.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

You should use DHCP but get a router that has reserved IP addresses.

Grumpy