ip address confusion

[Kevin Fries]

Generally, the first to respond.
On Aug 3, 2014 2:19 AM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> here is my before setup: I live in a mobile house with a porch that has
> been converted into a room. my internet runs from my living room.that runs
> 4 feet to the right to an XBMC box. then I was running wirelessly to the
> next room for my office computer. Then my brother moved in. at that point
> I ran a line from my modem to the office and to the wall in the office that
> was about 50 feet. I put a wall plate in and ran a line under the house to
> my brothers room (the one that was a porch). My brothers computer was a
> windows machine so the modem/router assigned it the ip 192.168.0.2 with the
> XBMC being 192.168.0.3 and the office computer being 192.168.0.4 . I then
> created a bunch of virtual machines  for Linux from Scratch and then bought
> a used xp machine ($20) to designate for LFS. So I needed to hook the
> internet to it so this is why I was asking a month ago about connecting
> another  router to my system..... so I didn't need to run another 50 foot
> cable. So now the 50 foot cable runs to the other router and that feeds my
> brothers computer  and the new computer. Here is the confusion. I
> configured the other router to asssign numbers from 192.168.0.125 to
> 192.168.0.254  but my brothers computer is still 192.168.0.2 and the new
> computer 's ip is 192.168.0.14. Why isn't it 192.168.0.125 and why isn't my
> brother's computer (which is now MX14 <antix/mepis corroboration which are
> debian derivatives>) now something  like 192.168.0.126 ?
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>
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