Anders Johansson wrote: > 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 > > While "static" means unchanging, in a computer network context a static address is one that's manually configured on the computer, as opposed to DHCP, which requires a server. That server can then be configured to always assign the same address or use the next available.
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