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As a technician working on specifically Avaya phone equipment, you often have to assign a specific static ip address to your PC in order to connect to the equipment. i.e. 192.11.13.5 / 255.255.255.252 and connect to 192.168.13.6. You have no choice, these are the ip addresses. Alternately, if...

Yes, you can change from static to dhcp. The adapter will get an ip address from the server. When you do an ipconfig, you will see the acquired ip address, AND the static ip addresses still listed. If you go to another site, get another ip address via dhcp, you will see the newly assigned ip...

I understand all of the above. ipconfig /release has no effect. Reboots, both warm or cold have no effect. The only way I have found to clear the old ip addresses is to remove the device and reboot. Upon reboot, the device is back and in dhcp mode.

But the "name" of my network adapter is always "local area network". I just open control panel > Network > right click on "local area network" > Properties > ipv4 and set a static IP address. I didn't even know the ip addresses were "sticking" until I plugged into a clients network, thinking I...

I have just been going through the control panel to change IP settings.

I use my Lenovo twist for work. From time to time I have to assign a static IP address to my network card based on the customer premise. What I have found is that if I do a ipconfig from the command line, these static ip addresses are not released. If I assign ip1, then customer site ip2...