orenosp and PC IP addesses

[CarlWalters]

haven't posted for a while - because everything has been fine :) even after moving house and swapping over to Sky form NTL I haven't had any problems. Except for one slight niggle when accessing TiVoWeb remotely. I've noticed that occasionally the IP addresses assigned by my Netgear Wireless router WGR614 change. I have three PCs attached (My PC, Work PC and the Children's PC) plus TiVO.

Currently the WGR614 is showing the attached devices as

My PC 192.168.0.2
Work PC 192.168.0.3
Children's PC 192.168.0.4
TiVo 192.168.0.100

and to access TiVoWeb remotely I have port forwarding enabled for orenosp on port 443 and forwarding to 192.168.0.2. This works fine until the IP addresses are swapped around for some reason (power glitch, router reboots etc) and the I cannot access TiVoWeb since orenosp is not being forwarded to my PC. I cannot forward orenosp to more than one IP address in the WGR614 admin page.

Does anyone else have similar problems? If so how do you get around it? It would be a pain if I were away on holiday while this happened and I couldn't set up a recording because all of the IP addresses had been swapped. I could miss the last episode of 24 or something equally tragic :D

[lenwuk]

My Netgear DG834 has a configuration area called "LAN IP Setup" where I can tie up local IP addresses to the MAC address of the ethernet cards.
Maybe your router has something similar?

Regards, Len

[Fozzie]

Or just statically assign the address on the PC itself (instead of using DHCP). The address should be outside of the DHCP range (scope) set on the router; soemthing like 192.168.0.200 would probably be fine.

[CarlWalters]

My Netgear DG834 has a configuration area called "LAN IP Setup" where I can tie up local IP addresses to the MAC address of the ethernet cards.
Maybe your router has something similar?

Regards, Len
aha! mine does too. This seems as though it should do the trick - thanks Len :)