[pchelpers] Re: IP Number and Router
- From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:19:59 +1300
Gerald Gollinger wrote:
> If I use a WiFi notebook in a public place such as a library what determines
> the IP number: the PC or the library's router?
>
> Gerald
If the local library allows this, they probably provide help to link to
the system. If not, the machine would have to scan for available nodes
(and hope they are library ones, not the building next door). In the
event you make a connection, the system is probably operating with DHCP,
which assigns a unique IP for each connection. That lasts only as long
as it is in use. Next time it would be a different one.
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