Length of the DHCP server's address lease

On Sun, Feb 1, 2026 at 11:36 PM Philip Rhoades via users <
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> People,
>
> I have had to do a LOT of messing around upgrading from DSL to a Fibre
> to the Premises connection - and there has been a great deal of trial
> and error getting the new setup to work - on the old setup my
> workstation IP was configured with a static IP via nm-connection-editor:
>
>    192.168.20.20
>
> but when trying to get things going for the new setup I had to let the
> router's DHcP provide the IP which could be anywhere between 2-254 for
> the last number of the quad, so after deleting the nm-connection-editor
> record and setting up a new "Wired Connection 1" which is setup for
> DHCP, why does the computer, after rebooting, still come up with its IP
> as 192.168.20.20 ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil.
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> Cowra  NSW  2796
> Australia
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