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How can I determine the IP addresses allocated by DHCP on a router that I'm connected to?
This “router” is not a typical situation. I’m using my phone as a hotspot and can only configure a select number of DHCP options.
I can manage the limit on how many devices/clients can use my phone ...
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Why does DHCP Server prefer unicasting over broadcasting and at what cost?
According to this book the DHCP Offer must be broadcast, yet sniffing DHCP packets: it looks like neither OFFER nor ACK is broadcast (or am I mistaken here?). The screenshot was taken during:
ipconfig ...
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Static IP, DHCP Reservation, or *both*?
Fairly new to networking concepts, have read the thread DHCP Reservation vs Static IP address, and still have a "dumb" question that wasn't asked there:
I have two devices I'd like to "freeze" an IP ...
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How can I add some static IP address at IPv6 for Windows 2012 DHCP server?
I would like to add some static IP address to my Windows 2012 DHCP server. I have tried to pair the IP address with its MAC address. At IPv4 it works, but how can do it at IPv6? Could anybody link a ...
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Want to know the local IP address assigned to me by my ISP
I use a TP-Link router (3420) to connect to my ISP.
My local IP address is 192.168.0.22. The ISP uses DHCP and the router shows the range of it 10.19.xxx.xxx. Sites like whatismyip.com show the ...
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Why won't my DHCP addresses "stick"?
I've been having some addressing issues that I've been unable to solve, and I'm hoping I can get some guidance about other things to research.
Service provider is Time Warner cable. A static IP is ...
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Why the IP address of the router is used as the address of the dns server?
These are the steps for converting a router to dhcp:
Why used the router IP as the DNS server IP address in the last case?
Should not use the IP address of servers like Google (8.8.8.8)?
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DHCP not issuing out IP addresses
DHCP on my network is no longer issuing out IP addresses. Every new device must be manually configured to connect to the network. After executing show ip dhcp binding, i noticed that all the ip ...
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Getting strange IP Address from router
I've had a router set up for quite some time and it has been working perfectly. My wife called me to tell me the wireless internet wasn't working and when I came home I saw that my phone was connected ...
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how to connect to different WI-FI with static and dynamic IP addresses?
How to connect to different WI-FI with static and dynamic IP addresses?
I have any user with loptop that connect to Wi-Fi inside Co and I set static IP for them
But when users go to their home and ...
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Roommates have several IP addresses on LAN : how and how to stay at one?
We have a not so bad connection at home, but we have some huge lag spikes. We have a terrible upload rate (around 0,95MBps at peak performance) and as soon as there's too many people on the network, ...
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Why does my router stop giving out IP addresses
I've got a Cisco Linksys X3500 ADSL2+ router which we have been using fine for a long while, until all of a sudden, the router stopped providing IP addresses after a certain amount of clients were ...
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Networking subnetting
I have a quick question I'm trying to set up my router DHCP server to have as many leases as possible so I'm trying to change its settings.
At the moment it's set like this:
Lan IP address 10.10.0.1
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How to configure my 2 router to make them as access points
I have this broadband and the main wireless router: Main Router
Also I have two other routers and would like to make them as access points. So All with the same SSID, then the device can choose the ...
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How does my ISP send my IP address to my DHCP server (router)?
It is well know that usually in small networks the IP of a host is allocated by the router, which acts as a DHCP server. Also, since my router acts as a NAT, it is sufficient to give my subnet a ...
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