Dynamic IP Addressing at MSU

Dynamic IP addressing makes use of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP. Using Dynamic IP addressing offers two primary advantages to campus users:

• Portability - a computer configured with Dynamic IP addressing, once registered, can be used at almost any available ethernet port on the MSU campus. Once your computer is registered, DHCP allows access to the Internet as well as to the MSU network.

• Dynamic IP addressing eliminates the need for individual computers to be configured with a static IP address. That reduces the support requirements, both for student computing and also within individual departments.

DHCP ethernet connections to the MSU network are available to anyone with an MSU NetID and the proper equipment.

Instructions are available for configuring either Windows or MacIntosh computer..

Instructions for registering your computer are available here.

To view or manage your registered computers, go to: dhcp.msu.edu