There is nothing preventing you from leaving DHCP on, but you can only run it from one router. Pick the one you want your friends to use and disable the other. You will need to use static on your server and PC, and set the DHCP range to exclude your statics (ex: from 192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1.100). This way your friends will access the network fine.
With two NIC on the server, you could run everything on DHCP but the server's interface connected to your internal network. With everything plugged into one switch, you have to leave your PC on static as well (well actually you *can* do static + dhcp on Windows, but it's a terrible hack not for the faint of heart).
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Last edited by Spblue; March 15, 2010 at 06:12 PM.
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