Windows - Displaying, Releasing, and Renewing a DHCP Lease

This document outlines how to see your current IP address and MAC address, as well as how to release and renew a DHCP lease.

Releasing and renewing your DHCP lease will pull a new IP address for your device from the DHCP host. This can solve many network connection issues.

Note: Releasing and renewing the current configuration can only be done if your adapter is configured to obtain an IP address automatically.

Displaying a DHCP Lease

  1. Open the Start menu.
  2. Type "cmd" into the search bar and click Command Prompt.

    Type cmd in start menu

    Windows 7, 8, 10

    • Windows 10: Open the Start Menu, type cmd and press Enter.

      win10search.png

    • Windows 8: Open the Start Menu, type cmd and press Enter.

    • Windows 7 and Windows Vista: Click on the Start Menu, type cmd in search box, and press Enter.

  3. In the Command Prompt, type "ipconfig /all" and press Enter.
    Your IP Address is listed to the right of IPv4 Address while your MAC Address is listed to the right of Physical Address

Releasing and Renewing a DHCP Lease

  1. Open the Start menu.
  2. Type "cmd" into the search bar and click Command Prompt.

    Type cmd in start menu

  3. In the Command Prompt, type "ipconfig /release" and press Enter.

    ipconfig_release.png

  4. Type "ipconfig /renew" and press Enter.

    ipconfig_renew.png

You have renewed your DHCP lease.


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Doc ID:
562
Owned by:
Help Desk KB Team in DoIT Help Desk
Created:
1999-12-31
Updated:
2025-06-27
Sites:
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