Weird network problem

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 18:34 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> 
> > Tim:
> >>> But are you talking about configuring a DHCP client or server?
> > 
> > Timothy Murphy:
> >> Sorry, I mis-read the query.
> >> I was thinking of a DHCP server
> > 
> > The same basic answer still stands:  A DHCP server, by default, doles
> > out dynamic IPs.
> 
> I agree that dhcp by default gives an IP address in a given range on a LAN.
> But I don't think this is what is normally meant by "dynamic IP".

Actually it gives out addresses on any kind of network, not just a LAN.
Your ISP probably uses DHCP to assign you an IP address. I know mine
does. And DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, so in my
book it's exactly what "dynamic IP" means.

poc