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@blakeyrat said:@davedavenotdavemaybedave said:You can set any IP address you like, and for all I know, the router part of the box will try and direct traffic to it. The firewall part, though, will block that traffic unless the router assigned the IP address. It's not at all uncommon for all traffic to all ports on all internal addresses to be blocked by default, with the only way to unblock it to have your address assigned by DHCP or statically by the router. It's a lot rarer to also be unable to assign static IPs from the router, but not unheard of.
I'm not going to say you're wrong, but I will say that I've worked with tons of networking equipment over the years and I've never seen anything like this.
You're basically saying that you've come across a router that, for all intents and purposes, refused to route to anything not using DHCP? Again, I'm not sure I buy it...Allow me to demonstrate: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fucking+linksysThis is not something that happens on proper kit, but the lower down the evolutionary scale the end-users are expected to be, the more locked-down the 'plug it into the wall, job done' installation process gets. Bear in mind that for 99.99% of the target market, this will never be an issue.