IP addresses on local network change

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 10/06/2014 02:51 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 02:22:42PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 10/06/2014 01:02 PM, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
>> That's not unusual with DHCP. DHCP assigned IP-addresses usually
>> have limited life-time until they expire. After expiration machines
>> may be assigned a new IP-address.
>
> However, I will point out that DHCP servers _tend_ to reassign the same
> IP address to a machine renewing its lease.

Sure. But I've seen some implementations (on home-routers), which were 
not doing so, but iterated through the whole pool of addresses, instead.

Ralf