Why do my local network ip addresses keep changing?

[Stephen]

you have two options either use static assignments in whatever you use
to assign DHCP so it will always give Mac address X Ip Y or to
configure your devices with static IP's

This is the nature of DHCP and it works they way by design.

3rd alternative is to set a DHCP lease so effing long that it
essentially never expires. but i am a larger fan of DHCP assignments.

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:04 PM,  <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>
> I have four computers on my local network, 3 of which access by wireless.
> While most will go along working fine for a while, occasionally the ip
> number changes on some of them.
>
> Why does that happen and is there any way to prevent that or to be able to
> reset the ip# back to what it was?
>
>
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Stephen