Question from full of jazz:
Is there a sure IP residence to sure computers?
I was experimenting as well as we took off a wire to my mechanism in to a laptop though they had opposite IP addresses. we have a router bending up to a modem. we kept you do this as well as we kept removing a same IP addresses from a same mechanism as well as upon a laptop. (When we contend this we meant which a laptop had a same IP residence a total time though it was opposite from a computers which was additionally a same a total time)
And is it probable which my mechanism as well as laptop both have opposite immobile IP addresses. If so, how?
January 9th, 2009 - 1:45 am
Yes. Each computer must have its own unique IP address within a network. DHCP often gives computers the same IP address they had previously when their lease expires.
January 10th, 2009 - 8:11 pm
It could be due to MAC addresses. These are hardware specific numbers that are unique in the world.
January 11th, 2009 - 10:37 pm
yes each computer should have its own ip adress
January 13th, 2009 - 12:35 am
they will have their own address so the router can identify them
January 13th, 2009 - 7:51 pm
Your Router or ISP that assigns the IP address automatically would attempt to use the same IP address to the same Network card that is connected again. It recognizes that card by it’s unique MAC address that is PROGRAMMED into the card like a fingerprint. That’s how DHCP services work.
But you say STATIC IP address. That implies that NO DHCP server is involved in the IP address assignment. In that case, the router or gateway would have been manually programmed to recognize your computer and laptop individually by that STATIC IP address that you manually assigned.
Maybe you are confusing this with the term Public IP address. You see, your Internet Provider has a bunch of these public IP addresses that it can assign temporarily. That address is assigned to your Modem/Router for your connection.
Your router using Local Area network assigned IP addresses. These are in a range of 192.168.x.x.
I’m not sure what your question really is, and what your intent is. If your Computer and Laptop are connected through a router to share a connection; that connection is only assigned ONE IP address up to your router from the internet. SO you are BUSTED.
Good luck and Happy Computing!
January 17th, 2009 - 5:54 am
The only way your computer and laptop would have different static IP addresses is if they are set to have static IP addresses. You can check this out by running the DOS command prompt and then typing in:
ipconfig /all
The above command will give you all the info on your network adapters.
Chances are, your router is acting as a dhcp server (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) which means that it is assigning IP address dynamically. The router recognizes the MAC address of your computer and laptop and assigns the IP address to it.
January 17th, 2009 - 12:47 pm
You router has it’s own IP address, that’s why you get the same IP address for everything, although everything (usually) has it’s own IP address.