Originally Posted by
Saab Dastard
As a matter of interest, what's your router address? It's normally either the first available or the last available address in the subnet - e.g. 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.0.254, in your network.
If the router address is itself 192.168.0.1 and you have no more than 4 other devices, then you would not expect to see an address higher than 5.
SD
Not quite. As I pointed out earlier it depends upon the router's implementation of DHCP daemon (quite often some open source GPL code) and the configured size of the DHCP scope as to what address the router wants to give you (on at least 2 manuf. routers I know, you'll start the scope in reverse order or totally randomly), and that's before the registry entry of the last leased IP tries to muscle in on things, ably abetted by the RFC-busting 110% lease time issue on some MS O/Ss as alluded to earlier.