Hi,

  On our internal network, we have a few devices that can only accept DHCP leases, but the applications with which they work need to always know the IP address, meaning if the DHCP lease ever expires, it is possible that the devices' IP address would change.  The vendor of this suite of applications was telling me that I need to have the DHCP server reserve an address for the exclusive use of that device or have the router "assign" the IP.   On the last point I challenged the tech support guy because I've never heard of a router assigning static IP's before, and after he went and talked to Development, confirmed that their device only could do DHCP (as I suspected)...i.e. no way to SSH into the device and set its network settings to something else (I don't think even the most advanced routers can do that but correct me if I'm wrong).

  So my question to TP-Link experts is this: With a device that can only do DHCP, can I guarantee that the IP address that gets assigned will never change, even if the device or router get shut down during a power outage?  If the DHCP assigned address ever changes, we then need to change the IP address in every component that needs to talk to that.

Thanks

-Hugh Ferguson