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Can you manually assign IP address that is out of the DHCP range?

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If I setup a router/modem to have DHCP range of 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.50, How do I manually assign one of the machines an IP address out of that range - eg. 10.0.0.51? I need to do this so that I can give one machine a fixed IP address so that I can setup port-forwarding for Remote Desktop.

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Yes you can. I would actually recommend doing it this way as it prevents any conflicts with the DHCP. Most guides on setting static IPs will tell you to put it outside the DHCP range. As long its on the same subnet. If your router was 192.168.1.1 yo…

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