https://nalar.dev/tags/dhcp/ Recent content in DHCP on Nalar Hugo en-us Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/dhcp-leases-and-local-ip-address-changes/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/dhcp-leases-and-local-ip-address-changes/ <p>A phone can disconnect from home Wi-Fi overnight and reconnect in the morning with the same local IP address. On another day, it may come back with a different one. Neither result necessarily indicates a fault. On networks that use DHCP, an address is commonly assigned as a lease rather than permanently attached to a device.</p> <p>DHCP, or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, supplies network configuration to clients. The assigned IP address is only one part of that configuration. A client can also receive information such as the subnet mask, default gateway, and DNS server addresses.</p>