Originally Posted by
Santander
No, auto IP is only valid if DHCP is set to on and there is no DHCP server available to provide an IP address the machine will assign an IP address itself, typically a 169.254.xxx.xxx. As previously suggested, set DHCP to off and then enter the static IP address you want along with the subnet mask and the gateway IP address, then re-boot the machine. Your manual settings will now be set for the network interface and will not change. We turn off auto IP on machine setup, as a loss of network connectivity for a few minutes could cause the unit to assign itself an IP address when it cannot contact the DHCP server, even though the MAC address has been entered as a reservation for a specific IP address. Once the unit auto assigns an IP address it ignores trying to contact the DHCP server again until the unit is powered off/on.
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