Bring up a command prompt (type cmd into the Start menu) and type ipconfig. For those of you following this guide with routers that don’t support DHCP reservations, you can skip ahead to the section on configuring static IP’s.Įvery router manufacturer is going to have a slightly different way to configure DHCP reservations, but it should go something like this:įirst, we need to figure out the IP address of our router, so we can go in and configure it. On some routers (older ones, mainly), DHCP is used but you may not have any control over what IP addresses it hands out to each computer on your network. The only problem is, not all routers support the configuration of DHCP reservations. Anytime the system with that MAC address comes on to the network, the router will automatically assign it the correct IP address. Even if it never sees that MAC address again, it will continue to reserve that IP address. After creating the reservation, your router knows to only hand out that particular IP address to the system with the corresponding MAC address.
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