XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.os.linux, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: ham789@netzero.net   
      
   On 4/11/2017 3:22 PM, Mike Easter wrote:   
   > Tomos Davies wrote:   
   >> How does setting the IP address to be static on the Android phone   
   >> cause the   
   >> linux router to *accept* that static address permanently?   
   >   
   > It doesn't (permanently); it is still dynamic to the router.   
   >   
   > For the same reason that when a cable modem releases its leased IP,   
   > waits a short while, and then renews its lease with the DHCP, it gets   
   > the exact same dyanmic IP back again.  Normally.   
   >   
   > However, you should be able to get the router to attach a particular LAN   
   > IP to a particular MAC address device on the LAN.   
   >   
   Google "address reservation".   
   You don't want a fixed IP address on a phone.   
   You want it in DHCP so it will work anywhere.   
   Tell YOUR router to reserve/assign a FIXED IP address to   
   the MAC address of the phone.   
   Best of both worlds.  Fixed at home, DHCP elsewhere.   
      
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