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[Glennr]

I want to assign a device a static address on the device itself; not a reserved address in the router.  The reason is that the device (vonage) sometimes has a problem with trying to renew its address.  Even though I assign a reserved address in the router, it looks like the device occasionally tries and fails to renew (even though the address is reserved).  I am dealing with the LAN wired ports.  So, I have a couple of questions.
1.  A reserved address in the router should be inside or outside of the DHCP range?
2.  A static address set on the device should be inside or outside of the DHCP range?
3.  Does the DIR-655 have any know issues doing this?

I ask number 3 because I have seen a few blogs where people have said they have had issues setting up static IPs and the answers have always been to set of reserved addresses instead.

[thecreator]

Hi Glennr,

Assign a Static IP Address on the Vonage Router, itself.

Then assign that same Static IP Address on the D-Link DIR-655.

This is done exactly the same way for NAS Storage Units, as well, like the D-Link DNS-323 Storage Unit.

[Glennr]

I see no place in my DIR-655 to assign a static IP address.  I only see a place to reserve a DHCP address.  I have seen other routers which allow you to assign a router port to a particular static IP address.  So are you saying that I should reserve the static address assigned in the device so that DHCP does not ever attempt to give that address out?
This is why I asked about what address to use as the static address, inside the DHCP scope or outside of it???

[thecreator]

I see no place in my DIR-655 to assign a static IP address.  I only see a place to reserve a DHCP address.  I have seen other routers which allow you to assign a router port to a particular static IP address.  So are you saying that I should reserve the static address assigned in the device so that DHCP does not ever attempt to give that address out?
This is why I asked about what address to use as the static address, inside the DHCP scope or outside of it???

Hi Glennr,

http://192.168.0.1/Basic/Network.shtml

The range to use is from 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.199

Inside the DHCP scope.

[mpdion]

Glennr,

A reserved address is within the DHCP range and shows up in the DHCP Reservations List (Setup/Network Settings). You do not have to 'assign' a static address in the router for your network devices, it just has to be outside the DHCP range. If your DHCP range is set to 192.168.0.100-199 then you can assign any static IP address from 192.168.0.200-255 to your device. I am using a DIR-655, three network devices with static IPs (outside my DHCP range) without any issues.