A technician installed a new router at a small office. After the installation, the technician notices that all devices have a 169.254.x.x IP address. Printers and fileshares are still working, but PCs

The correct answer is C. DHCP. The 169.254.x.x address range is APIPA (Automatic Private IP Addressing), which Windows assigns automatically when a device cannot reach a DHCP server. APIPA allows link-local communication on the same subnet (explaining why local printers and file shares still work), but APIPA a

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A technician installed a new router at a small office. After the installation, the technician notices that all devices have a 169.254.x.x IP address. Printers and fileshares are still working, but PCs cannot access the internet. Which of the following should the technician configure on the router to enable devices to connect to the internet?

Options

AAPIPA
BDNS
CDHCP
DSMB

How the community answered

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A
3% (1)
B
11% (4)
C
84% (31)
D
3% (1)

Explanation

The 169.254.x.x address range is APIPA (Automatic Private IP Addressing), which Windows assigns automatically when a device cannot reach a DHCP server. APIPA allows link-local communication on the same subnet (explaining why local printers and file shares still work), but APIPA addresses are non-routable and have no default gateway, so internet access fails. The new router needs DHCP enabled and configured so it can hand out proper IP addresses, subnet masks, and default gateway information to clients. APIPA (A) is the symptom, not the fix. DNS (B) resolves hostnames but isn't the root cause here. SMB (D) is the file-sharing protocol already working over APIPA.

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#DHCP#APIPA#IP addressing#Router configuration

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