Default gateway included in DHCP pool??

I was having intermittent problems with the shared network connection failing to obtain a valid IPv4 IP address (thus no Iv4 LAN/internet access). I noticed that the DHCP pool included the typical gateway address in an IPv4 subnet (usually the first host in the subnet); and the interface on the Mac side looks like it has a static IP set to 10.211.55.2. So I set the DHCP pool for subnet 10.211.55.0/24 from 10.211.55.10 to 10.211.55.254 (eliminating 10.211.55.0 through 10.211.55.9 from the pool). Here is the current IPv4 config on my Windows 10 VM:
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.211.55.10
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.211.55.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.211.55.1
I'm wondering if this was an IP conflict with Parallels trying to assign the same IP to the default gateway and the VM NIC or host at startup. I'll report back if the problem recurs despite the change I made to the DHCP pool. But at least for now it seems to have fixed the problem with network access on my Windows 10 Parallels VM.