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title: "Modifying Fixed Address Inheritance"
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To modify a fixed address' inheritance, complete the following:

1. <span style="color: #000000">From the Infoblox Portal, click </span><span style="color: #000000">**Network**</span><span style="color: #000000"> > </span><span style="color: #000000">**IPAM **</span><span style="color: #000000">> </span><span style="color: #000000">**Address Spaces**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
2. <span style="color: #000000">Click on the </span><span style="color: #000000">**IP Space **</span><span style="color: #000000">> </span><span style="color: #000000">**Address Block**</span><span style="color: #000000"> > corresponding </span><span style="color: #000000">**Subnet**</span><span style="color: #000000">. It displays the list of address ranges that are associated with it. </span>
3. <span style="color: #000000">Click</span>☰<span style="color: #000000"> > </span><span style="color: #000000">**Edit**</span><span style="color: #000000"> or select the respective record and click the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Edit**</span><span style="color: #000000"> button to modify an address range.</span>
4. Under **DHCP CONFIGURATION**, click > Macro (inline-media-image)

to open the **DHCP Options** panel.
5. To override **DHCP Options**, slide the **Inherit** toggle to **Override** the default inheritance chain.
6. You can also click **Add **to add an item type from the following drop-down list options:

> Macro (legacy-content)

     3. Click **Save & Close** to save the record or click **Cancel** to cancel the operation.

> ⚠️ **Note**
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> ⚠️ In **Override** mode, you can optionally click **Copy Global DHCP Properties** to use the global properties inheritance values.

For additional information on inheritance, see <u><span style="color: #0000ff">*[About DHCP Inheritance](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneDDI/pages/186843766)*</span></u><span style="color: #0000ff">.</span>