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5.3 DHCP
Server
Click on the
DHCP Server
link to view the DHCP Server
settings. The table displays the DHCP server settings, this
includes: start IP, end IP, domain name, gateway address, and
status.
Click on the
Add
button to enable a DHCP server and fill in the
IP information based on your ISP settings.
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An IP address pool typically includes a range private addresses
that you define. LAN administrators often define private IP
addresses for use only on their networks. You can also use
DHCP server pools to distribute multiple public IP addresses, if,
for example, these are to be shared among a larger set of LAN
computers.
You can create up to two DHCP server address pools. You can
define a single pool with addresses that can be assigned to
your LAN PCs (connected via the Ethernet port) and to a
USB-connected computer, as long you have assigned to the
USB and Ethernet interfaces static IP addresses that place
them in the same subnet.
Start/End IP Addresses:
Specify the lowest and highest
addresses in the pool, up to a maximum range of 254
addresses.
Mac Address:
A MAC address is a manufacturer-assigned
hardware ID that is unique for each device on a network.
Use this field only if you want to assign a specific IP
address to a specific computer (that is, you are creating an
exception to the dynamic assignment of addresses). The IP
address you specify will be assigned to the computer that
corresponds to this MAC address. If you type a MAC
address here, you must have specified the same IP
address in both the Start IP Address and End IP Address
fields.
Net Mask:
Specifies which portion of each IP addresses in
this range refers to the network and which portion refers to
the host (computer). You can use the net mask to
distinguish which pool of addresses should be distributed to
a particular subset of computers on your LAN (call a
subnet).
Domain Name:
A user-friendly name that refers to the
subnet that includes the addresses in this pool.
Gateway Address:
The address of the default gateway for
computers that receive IP addresses from this pool. If no
value is specified, then the appropriate LAN (eth-0) or USB
(usb-0) port address on the device will be distributed to
each PC as its gateway address, depending on how each
