A student is helping a friend with a home computer that can no longer access the Internet. Upon investigation, the student disco

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A student is helping a friend with a home computer that can no longer access the Internet. Upon investigation, the student disco

vers that the computer has been assigned the IP address 169.254.100.88. What could cause a computer to get such an IP address?

Computers and Technology

1 answer:

Alexxandr [17] · Answer 1 · 2022-03-11T04:52:39+03:00

Answer:

Due to unreachable DHCP server

Explanation:

As we know that Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, in short DHCP is the network protocol which is used to central and automatic management of IP address with in the network.

So due to unreachable DHCP server a student could not able to connect with the internet.When the network connection break it means that DHCP server is offline.

So the answer is Due to unreachable DHCP server .