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host without an IP address will be forced to wait until a host with 
one is turned off or gives up its IP address for some other reason.

If you choose to manually distribute IP addresses, you must enter 
each computer’s address into its TCP/IP stack software. Once you 
manually issue an address to a computer, it possesses that 
address until you manually remove it. That’s why manually 
distributed addresses are sometimes called static addresses.

Static addresses are useful in cases when you want to make sure 
that a host on your network cannot have its address taken away by 
the address ser ver. A network administrator’s computer, a computer 
dedicated to communicating with the Internet, and routers are 
appropriate candidates for a static address.

The Netopia ISDN Router provides two ways to ser ve IP addresses 
to computers on a network. The first, Dynamic Host Configuration 
Protocol (DHCP), is suppor ted by PCs with Microsoft Windows and a 
TCP/IP stack. Macintosh computers using Open Transpor t and 
computers using the UNIX operating system may also be able to use 
DHCP. The second way, MacIP, is for Macintosh computers. MacIP is 
provided with the Netopia Internet Software Star ter Kit.

The Netopia ISDN Router can use both DHCP and MacIP. Whether 
you use one or both will depend on your par ticular networking 
environment. If that environment includes both PCs and Macintosh 
computers that do not use Open Transpor t, you will need to use 
both DHCP and MacIP to distribute IP addresses to all of your 
computers.