I encountered a problem with the DHCP IP address assignment on my setup.

I have 3 pcs connect to a wireless router. Two of them running windows xp using wireless connection. The last one run the knoppix 4.0.2. One of the windows Xp machine is always on for either downloading or running some internal programs.

The problem I have is by the time I boot up the knoppix machine, it sometimes will use the same IP address as the windows xp machine and causing the abend of the programs in the windows machine.

My router has the DHCP server in there and suppose to assign unused IP address dynamically to any PC connect to it.

I just wonder if there is any method I can control on the knoppix box when it asks for an IP address from the DHCP server and limit the range of IP address the DHCP server can provide in order to avoid the conflict of the IP address assignment.

For example, can I ask the DHCP returns me an unused IP address starting from a specific IP address range?

Rgds,
Chip