Local IP address?

[Billy Pollifrone]

Depending on specific installation, usually the DHCP lease time is set high
enough that you'd have to not be using your computer for a rather long time
to get assigned a new address.

On 2/1/06, Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Feb 1, 2006, at 5:46 AM, Dave M G wrote:
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> Possibly if you reboot your computer the router will assign a
> different address.  Some routers permit you to tie an IP address to
> the MAC address of your computer's network interface which would
> avoid this.  Alternately, you can assign a static IP to your computer
> (preferably outside the range of those assigned by DHCP) by using the
> network configuration tool or editing /etc/network/interfaces.
>
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