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Cisco 871 dynamic ip on wan port

faktusbaktus
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I'm fairly new to cisco especially my new (used) Cisco 871 router.

I have a cable modem that gives me a dynamic ip address..

I haven't tried to connect the router to the internet yet, but i'm wondering: Is it possible to configure the wan interface fe4 to work with a dynamic IP (my ISP don't offer anything else)..? every other router that i have configured i've always used a static

-fb

newbie

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Jon Marshall
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faktusbaktus wrote:

I'm fairly new to cisco especially my new (used) Cisco 871 router.

I have a cable modem that gives me a dynamic ip address..

I haven't tried to connect the router to the internet yet, but i'm wondering: Is it possible to configure the wan interface fe4 to work with a dynamic IP (my ISP don't offer anything else)..? every other router that i have configured i've always used a static

-fb

newbie

Yes it is possible, you would configure it like this -

int fa4

ip address dhcp

Jon

thanx! 

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