How to change IP address of PS2 on network?

prboom · 10-08-2006,11:04 PM

I need help changing my the IP addy of my PS2 on the network. right now I can only communicate PC to PS2 is by going to network connections and changing the properties of TCP/IP to 192.168.0.1.

When I do this, I can no longer browse the internet. Is there a way to change the IP address on my PS2 so that I can work PC to PS2 + continue browsing the net?

thanks

**buvk** · 10-09-2006,03:03 AM

setup your router to assign your ps2 a specific ip based on its mac?

**und0** · 10-09-2006,05:07 AM

Originally Posted by buvk

setup your router to assign your ps2 a specific ip based on its mac?

It doesn't works this way. What you are talking about is probably binding an IP address to a MAC address via a DHCP server, but to do so you need to run on the PS2 a DHCP client.

prboom, you don't state the way you want to comunicate with your PS2. I assume you have trouble with hdl_dump/hdld_svr, so if it's really a problem in your LAN to reserve the 192.168.0.10 IP address to your PS2, the hdldump documentation describe to create a file in your memory card called IPCONFIG.DAT (the full path should be mc0:SYS-CONF/IPCONFIG.DAT) with a single line to define ip_address networking_mask gateway_ip in the standard IPv4 decimal dot notation (XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX), where ip_address is the address you want to assign to the PS2...

**t00p** · 10-09-2006,01:42 PM

Originally Posted by und0

It doesn't works this way.

actually that works fine for games and software that doesnt use IPCONFIG.DAT

**und0** · 10-10-2006,04:18 AM

Originally Posted by t00p

actually that works fine for games and software that doesnt use IPCONFIG.DAT

As i've stated above, you don't assign IP addresses with a router, if not using a DHCP client/server infracstructure, and yes, stripped down DHCP servers can run on routers. The missing link is a DHCP client on PS2. From what i'm aware of, PS2 firmware lacks a DHCP client, but feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.

I don't know about other games or software, but hdld_svr works fine cause it defaults to 192.168.0.10. Try to assing a different address to your PS2 with your router...

P.S. To be clear, it could be done without DHCP with multicast DNS service discovery, but it's not what we're talking about here.

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