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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463852
Pages 422 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface
Kick-Start Your Raspberry Pi Zero Setting Up Physical and Wireless Connections Programming with Linux Programming with Python Getting Your Hands Dirty Using the GPIO Header Controlling the LEDs and Displays Controlling the Hardware Taking Digital Inputs to the Raspberry Pi Zero Interfacing Sensors with the Raspberry Pi Zero Cooking up Projects to Amaze the World!

Setting Up dynamic and static IP address for RPZ


Now that we have our Raspberry Pi Zero on the network, let's look a little closer at what we can do with the networking. Everything should have connected to your Wi-Fi network thanks to DHCP (Dynamic Host Allocation Protocol). DHCP takes incoming requests from devices to be added to the network. It has a pool of IP addresses on the network that it will "lease" to the device for a period of time. After the lease expires, the device may renew (and, depending on the DHCP server rules, will get a new or the same address), or the address will be returned to the available pool. This makes it easy to add machines to a network without keeping track of individual addresses assigned to devices. When your Raspberry Pi Zero connected to your Wi-Fi network, by default, it would have been assigned at least one IP address: an IPv4 address (four sets of numbers between 0 and 255, as in 192.168.17.250), and/or a newer IPv6 address (8 sets of hexadecimal numbers...

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