Is there a way to set a static IP for windows 8.1 and obtain DNS server automatically?

Is there a way to set a static IP for windows 8.1 and obtain DNS server automatically?

Map the MAC to the IP you want in your router's DHCP server?

Maybe I'm missing something, but if you have access to DHCP for DNS records, why would you want a device configured static IP?

Why not just set the router to reserve that IP for that PC?

Map the MAC to the IP you want in your router's DHCP server?

Maybe I'm missing something, but if you have access to DHCP for DNS records, why would you want a device configured static IP?

Why not just set the router to reserve that IP for that PC?

 

Will this work with the Windows 8 PC being a virtual machine in ESXi?

 

I also read that you can set the DNS to be the same as the default gateway but not all router support it.  I have a netgear WNDR 4000 with dd-wrt installed.  Does anybody know if setting the DNS to the gateway will work for my router?

 

I am at work right now and don't have access to my router to test it out.

Map the MAC to the IP you want in your router's DHCP server?

Maybe I'm missing something, but if you have access to DHCP for DNS records, why would you want a device configured static IP?

Why not just set the router to reserve that IP for that PC?

 

Will this work with the Windows 8 PC being a virtual machine in ESXi?

 

I am at work right now and don't have access to my router to test it out.

I don't have experience with ESXi, but it works just fine in Virtualbox. The neat thing with virtualbox is that you can arbitrarily assign the MAC in the network settings for the VM, you should be able to do the same with ESXi. Oh, the only caveat with virtualbox is that you have to specify that the virtual network adapter is bridged instead of internally NATted by the virtualbox host. Dunno what the equivalent is in ESXi.

Map the MAC to the IP you want in your router's DHCP server?

Maybe I'm missing something, but if you have access to DHCP for DNS records, why would you want a device configured static IP?

Why not just set the router to reserve that IP for that PC?

 

Will this work with the Windows 8 PC being a virtual machine in ESXi?

 

I am at work right now and don't have access to my router to test it out.

I don't have experience with ESXi, but it works just fine in Virtualbox. The neat thing with virtualbox is that you can arbitrarily assign the MAC in the network settings for the VM, you should be able to do the same with ESXi. Oh, the only caveat with virtualbox is that you have to specify that the virtual network adapter is bridged instead of internally NATted by the virtualbox host. Dunno what the equivalent is in ESXi.

 

I just edited my last post while you were posting but this was my other question

 

I also read that you can set the DNS to be the same as the default gateway but not all router support it.  I have a netgear WNDR 4000 with dd-wrt installed.  Does anybody know if setting the DNS to the gateway will work for my router?

I also read that you can set the DNS to be the same as the default gateway but not all router support it.  I have a netgear WNDR 4000 with dd-wrt installed.  Does anybody know if setting the DNS to the gateway will work for my router?

If you have dd-wrt configured with local DNS it should work fine. Dunno if that's the default with dd-wrt or not, but it probably is. Take a look here and see if it answers your questions or raises more.

Map the MAC to the IP you want in your router's DHCP server?

Maybe I'm missing something, but if you have access to DHCP for DNS records, why would you want a device configured static IP?

Why not just set the router to reserve that IP for that PC?

 

Will this work with the Windows 8 PC being a virtual machine in ESXi?

 

I also read that you can set the DNS to be the same as the default gateway but not all router support it.  I have a netgear WNDR 4000 with dd-wrt installed.  Does anybody know if setting the DNS to the gateway will work for my router?

 

I am at work right now and don't have access to my router to test it out.

That is how I have all of my Windows 7 VMs on ESXi working.  It used to be 3 ESXi servers down to 2 now.  The mac address will look something like this: "00:0c:29:4e:5f:a4"  not sure how much is changeable in the mac address but if you see "00:0c:..." then it is a mac address for ESXi 5.0.  Not sure if it changes for 5.1+ - sorry.

In ddwrt you can set a static lease on the MAC address of your virtual machine so it always gets the same IP address. Then you can set the guest to DHCP (in windows) and it will get the reserved IP address, but will also get dns from the router.

 

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