Tell me more ×  My ISP gave me a really crappy router-modem-
combination that lacks basic features. For instance you can't
assign a constant ip to the mac adress of a client PC. I run a
server for my home entertainment system and a storage server.
Both should have a static ip within my LAN.  So my thought was
to disable the DHCP-Server on the crappy modem and let my home
entertainment server do the ip assignments. I was thinking
dnsmasq, but I don't seem to get it to work. I thought maybe
someone can help me  So the situation: is the server ip in LAN,
lets say its mac is aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa and it is connected to a
switch with device eth0. Here it's /etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo iface lo inet loopback  auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static
gateway is the ip of the cable modem (set statically). It is
connected to the internet and the same switch as the server.
mac: bb:bb:bb:bb:bb:bb  192,168.0.3 is supposed to be the future
ip of the network storage system, lets say its mac adress is
cc:cc:cc:cc:cc:cc. It is a