Thread: What happens to old IP address?
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Old 30-10-2011, 10:07   #12
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Re: What happens to old IP address?
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet View Post
No, it goes back into the pool once the current lease has ended. You may lose your IP address due to moving line cards - you'll be forwarded to the server you request the IP from via a slightly different route so the IP request isn't the same - the server will remember which MAC address had that IP until the week long lease is done then it'll be released back to the available pool.

The DHCP server has no way of knowing that you won't be asking for the same IP address back and allocates them for fixed periods.

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IP addresses are neither paid for nor owned. VM are allocated use of some of them but they are considered a public resource.

VM are required to make as efficient use as possible of their available allocation, whether they do or not is, in common with most operators, extremely debatable


That pretty much caps off my knowledge of networks then .. but in my defence, I was told this by someone in the networks team (also no longer with VM) .. I didn't just make it up (like I normally do)
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