{"id":81,"date":"2019-07-30T14:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/helpcenter2020\/1\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-dynamic-ip-address-and-a-static-ip-address\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T14:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:01:24","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-a-dynamic-ip-address-and-a-static-ip-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/payment-devices\/semi-integrated\/e285\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-dynamic-ip-address-and-a-static-ip-address\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between a dynamic IP address and a static IP address?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Dynamic IP addresses<\/h3>\n<p>A Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server assigns IP addresses automatically to devices on a network. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These IP addresses are dynamic, which means that they can change if the DHCP server reassigns the address.<\/span> We configure your Semi-Integrated device to accept dynamic IP addresses by default. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The DHCP server may assign a new dynamic IP address to your device if one of the following happens:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a disruption in network connectivity<\/li>\n<li>The DHCP server is rebooted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When the IP address of your Semi-Integrated device changes, it can&#8217;t communicate with the POS. To restore communications, update your POS with the new IP address of your Semi-Integrated device.<\/p>\n<h3>Static IP addresses<\/h3>\n<p>Static IP addresses are manually configured and do not change. We recommend configuring a static IP address on your Semi-Integrated device if your DHCP server frequently changes assigned IP addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dynamic IP addresses A Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server assigns IP addresses automatically to devices on a network. These IP addresses are dynamic, which means that they can change if the DHCP server reassigns the address. We configure your Semi-Integrated device to accept dynamic IP addresses by default. The DHCP server may assign a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n <div style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\" class=\"page-blu\"><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/payment-devices\/semi-integrated\/e285\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-dynamic-ip-address-and-a-static-ip-address\/\">Read More <\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,205,206,207,2,5,3],"tags":[208,209,80,154,210,211,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.globalpaymentsintegrated.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}