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Only 2 Clients connected, yet router shows 4 IP addresses in the DHCP list

There are at present 2 devices connected to my home WiFi network, my laptop and my Raspberry Pi. The MAC address table on my router configuration page shows 2 clients connected but my DHCP client list ...
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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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ADSL router - public IP for local network

Today I went to my friend and took a look at his PC. He has ADSL router ZTE ZXDSLl 831cii. So there is a telephone line to router and PC is connected to Lan1 of the router (there are also Lan2, Lan3, ...
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IP release and renew return the same IP on a new LAN with different IP scheme

Something strange I've encountered for the first time. Windows 7 PC was movied from one LAN to another and still kept getting the same IP address from DHCP as it did at old LAN location. For example, ...
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Internet drops - two routers handing out IP addresses?

My apartment block of 14 apartments share one fiber-optic internect connection. However, I've been having trouble setting up my wifi. I have two routers. 1) A D-link. This works out of the box, but ...
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Ubuntu server as DHCP server for dual stack

I currently have an Ubuntu server on VirtualBox set up to give hosts on my GNS3 topology IPv4 addresses, and it is working without issues. However, I would like to have that same DHCP server give out ...
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How do I permanently assign an IP address with DHCP?

I am wondering if there is anything (software or hardware) out there that can do something I think I may have made up, Dynamic Static IPs. The idea is that when a new device connects to the local ...
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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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On boot, how can I switch to a static IP based on a gateway IP provided by DHCP?

I have a "headless" *NIX host -- let's call it 'foo' -- that is to be accessible via SSH and VNC-tunneled-over-SSH on an arbitrary 192.168.x.y/24 private LAN. Sometimes, I want to physically move 'foo'...
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IP Address conflict in a LAN

How to find if someone has taken a particular IP address in a Local Area Network? Or in a more generalized form, how to find the list of IP address that DHCP has allocated in a Local Area Network?
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internal static IP address configuration from router

How do I reserve an IP address for tleilax and ensure that tleilax only gets that reserved address? The tleilax box uses DHCP. When I look at attached devices, I see: Attached Devices Wired ...
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Linux IP aliasing with single DHCP and single STATIC IP address

I'm working on an embedded system with a single physical ethernet device. Using aliasing, I'd like the device configured such that one static IP address (call it s.s.s.s) is ALWAYS available. The ...
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Network bridge loses its IP configuration

After certain uptime of my computer, network bridge adapter (includes WLAN and virtual machine) in my Windows 8 computer suddenly deconfigures from 192.168.1.9 (address made static at router's DHCP ...
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DHCP Reservation vs Static IP address

So after browsing some websites, some people are telling me that static IP address is the best. But others say the DHCP Reservation is just as good if not the same. So what is better? Or are they ...
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Can't add static lease from inside DHCP range in pfSense

When trying to add my computer to static lease, I get the following error I don't understand the reason for this. If I would want to assign IP from outside DHCP range, I would assign it statically ...
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Two IPv4 adapters in same PC on same network valid?

Is it valid to have two network adapters on the same PC have the same network portion in their IPv4 address? If not why is my DHCP server doing so and how should I setup my DHCP server to have it ...
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Strange Item on DHCP Client Table

I was recently having internet connection issues and looked on my router's DHCP Client Table. An item that stuck out was the name of my neighbor's WiFi Network. The table listed "Neighbor's WiFi ...
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Ethernet connection shows unidentified network with no internet access

For years I've used a physical Ethernet connection for my internet access, then a few days ago it went down and said it was an unidentified network with no internet access. I dug out a wifi card and ...
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DHCP letting multiple devices get same IP address - how to trouble shoot?

I am using a win2008 server with AD to also serve DHCP and DNS. I have some wifi AP's that are giving me trouble (dropping connections and generally misbehaving). The issue that I notice is that the ...
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How can my server announce its presence to everyone in the network [closed]

The situation is as follows. I want to have an application running on a server. All of the desktops in the company has to connect to it. But I do not want the IP address of the server to be hard coded ...
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Send files between two systems over LAN

I am able to send the files from one to another system connected on same router in a LAN. Now, I connected one more router to the first router to increase the range of wireless connectivity. When I ...
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How to eliminate the downtime when a dynamic IP address changes?

We currently have a number of client computers linked up to a database server (MS SQL 2008) for replication. The database server recognises the computers based on their Windows hostname. We are using ...
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Network Instable Connection over LAN, Airport Express works

I just got a cubox-i4 but have a big problem with the LAN connection. It establishes and crashes again. The thing is, that if I connect it via LAN to an Airport Express (connected via wifi), the ...
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Is it possible to use DHCP to obtain default gateway and DNS server only?

I have a few VMs which I want to keep with static IP addresses. However, I run those on my laptop and frequently connect to different networks which use different default gateway and different DNS ...
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DHCP Pool Range / IP-Camera Setup

Lately I have been trying to set up a IP-Camera for friends wirelessly. I realized on their router its DHCP pool range is from 192.169.2.100 - 192.168.2.200. But when I changed the IP address of the ...
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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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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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My domain name is doubled in dns on my centos 6.5 vm guest. server.mydomain.com.mydomain.com

my centos guest is set up as follows. It gets its IP address from DHCP. [marathon@server ~]$ domainname mydomain.com [marathon@server ~]$ hostname server [marathon@server ~]$ more /etc/sysconfig/...
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how to access two subnet in one NIC?

I am wondering if it is possible to use one network card to access two subnet in windows. I need to access a (LAN) local ip 192.168.0.5/255.255.255.0 and WAN with DHCP. I google that someone suggests ...
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How to retain a unique IP on a client with a static IP in a DHCP subnet?

When I say DHCP subnet I mean that the clients are intended to receive their network configuration via DHCP, not statically. Let's observe the following situation: I set up an IP address statically,...
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