Home Networking@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 10 months ago

Fixed AND Static IPs?

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Home Networking@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 10 months ago

Is there any harm in giving a device a Fixed IP (DHCP rez) as well as a Static IP (on device)?

I’m just trying to understand how these things work. Thanks!

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If you assign a static IP in the device, then that device will NOT request an IP from the DHCP server.

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