Wireless Router vending 192.168.0.0

Clarifications

you should be able to go into the router and change the DHCP pool to whatever you want (within the private IPs of course). If you arent sure how to do this keep reading:

If you already have the linksys in place and the default settings are still in tact just go to 192.168.1.1 in your web browser. It will bring up the linksys interface. There should be 2 sections on the basic setup screen. This changes per model and firmware version so you will need to check with linksys for specifics, but generally you have a section for starting address and a section for dhcp pool. So the starting address would be 10.80.2.1 and the dhcp starting address should be 10.80.2.2. That way the first computer to get a lease is 2 and they will increase from there to whatever you set as the max pool size.

Sorry i couldnt be more specific but i would have to know the model of your router.

Hey thats what forums are for right? Anyway yeah i would recommend you go ahead and do it after hours. its never a good idea to do any kind of service changes while people are using the router/server. If for some reason you HAVE to just make sure you send out an email before hand. In your case its not a huge deal, most people restart the computer when it acts funny anyway so the lease will get renewed when it reconnect.

BTW. if you are already running a DHCP service that is leasing IPs, why not just add a switch? If indeed there is a DHCP server already running adding this one into the same subnet will put up a lot of bugs into the network.

Im gonna take a guess and say you are adding wireless to an existing sbs (or similar) network. In that case, turn off the DHCP in the linksys altogether and plug the LAN cable from the server into one of the switch ports (as opposed to the WAN port). Make sure you are happy with the wireless settings before turning off the DHCP though or you will have to factory reset it to get back in and change it.