Comments for Am I stealing someone else's IP address by resetting my router?

Comment from IAN on 2008-11-29

2008-11-30T07:53:19Z

I have known of people obtain some one elses IP and manually put it into there router settings.Can you stop this from happening?

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Comment from Julian on 2008-11-02

2008-11-03T00:43:01Z

Oh, this only pertains to running your own private network. If you are running internet access through your router from a internet provider, an ip and subnet mask will automatically be assigned to your equipment based off your router's mac address (NIC card). All you have to do is make sure that your computer is set to " automatically obtain ip". And not in configure ip manually mode.

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Comment from Julian on 2008-11-02

2008-11-03T00:35:51Z

Also, when you manually configure your ip address to a DCE/DTE piece of equipment, you will need to assign a subnet mask i.e. 255.255.0.0 or 255.255.255.0. All this does is tell your equipment how many ip addresses it will enable.

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Comment from andrew on 2008-10-03

2008-10-03T22:05:05Z

i started reading further on static ips, and ive found out that i dont have one. im using a DHCP. thanks a lot for clearing this up for me

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