The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> And what guarantee is there that its IP adress will stay te same next
> time it reboots a DHCP request?

Because the client’s MAC address won’t change and you’ve configured your
DHCP server (in your modem config interface) to assign a fixed IP address
to it. Outside the dynamic DHCP range, obviously.

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