information on static ip

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What exactly is a static ip address? I know it doesn't
change and know an ip address is like ip.add.re.ss
(except with numbers). How can you tell a difference by
looking at a ip address?

In other words, are these addresses static or dynamic?

192.168.1.101
192.168.255.4

Can anybody explain?
 
what u see is what u get!!

u can never tell the difference between a static IP and a
Dynamic IP by looking at it.

Static IP was designed to allow admin to speifcally assign
addresses to computers such as servers. This means that
you will not have to look up the address of that server.

Dynamic addressing is for the lazy admministrators. it is
used by the dhcp server to automate the address scheme for
the network.

There is no difference of the address by just looking at it

hopes this helps
 
Sam said:
What exactly is a static ip address? I know it doesn't
change and know an ip address is like ip.add.re.ss
(except with numbers). How can you tell a difference by
looking at a ip address?

In other words, are these addresses static or dynamic?

192.168.1.101
192.168.255.4

Can anybody explain?
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Static IP addresses are ones that are assigned to a computer or
other network device on a network by someone such as a network
administrator. Static IP addresses are permanent until someone changes them.

Dynamic IP addresses are ones that are assigned to a computer or
other network device on a network usually by an entity called a
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol server when a computer or
other network device is detected on the network.

You only know if an IP Address is static or dynamic by knowing how a
particular network connection is configured. You can't tell if a particular
ip address is static or dynamic just by looking at it out of context of its
particular network.

http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci214173,00.html

http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci213894,00.html
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