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Whats the difference between a static and a server assigned IP address ?

April 26, 2017difference ip address server static

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Whats the difference between a static and a server assigned IP address ?

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• Every computer connected to the Internet must have an IP address. That is also true of your machine. Computers being used as servers must have a permanently assigned IP address so that other computers will know how to connect to them. Such addresses are known as static IP addresses. • Casual Net users do not need a static IP address for their machine. In those cases an IP address is assigned anew from a pool of addresses each time a user logs in. That is called server-assigned or dynamically-assigned IP addressing.