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How does DHCP distribute or choose which IP to give within the scope?

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Mar 15, 20264534 views
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There is something strange happening with my OpenWrt firmware. The scope for my DHCP is 100 to 250 in the range but the first IP it gave is . Is there any reason it started from 189? Can it be random? I'm sure I have some static IPs configured but only 3 or 4 in the 100 - 200 range. How does DHCP dā€¦

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192.168.1.*

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Fix for: How does DHCP distribute or choose which IP to give within the scope?

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I realize this is an old question, but... I believe Gargoyle (and many other third-party firwares for routers) use dnsmasq for their DNS/DHCP service, which by default gives an IP based on a hash of the device's MAC address. The documentation gives ā€¦

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