On Monday 15 October 2007 00:43:26 James Knott wrote:
> A static address, where the computer is manually configured with an
> address does not require a dhcp server.  This is different from when the
> dhcp server is configured to reserve a specific IP for a given MAC
> address.  In this situation, a computer will always have the same IP,
> even though dhcp is used.

"static" means "unchanging", it doesn't mean "written in a text file somewhere 
on the local computer".

A static IP can be handed out by a dhcp server. You're right of course that it 
doesn't *require* a dhcp server, but then no one said it did

Anders

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