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Chapter 7 Home Networking
VMG1312-T10C User’s Guide
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7.3 The Static DHCP Screen
This table allows you to assign IP addresses on the LAN to specific individual computers based on
their MAC Addresses.
Every Ethernet device has a unique MAC (Media Access Control) address. The MAC address is
assigned at the factory and consists of six pairs of hexadecimal characters, for example,
00:A0:C5:00:00:02.
7.3.1 Before You Begin
Find out the MAC addresses of your network devices if you intend to add them to the Static DHCP
screen.
Use this screen to change your Device’s static DHCP settings. Click Network Setting > Home
Networking > Static DHCP to open the following screen.
Figure 49
Network Setting > Home Networking > Static DHCP
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 26
Network Setting > Home Networking > Static DHCP
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Add new static lease Click this to add a new static DHCP entry.
# This is the index number of the entry.
Status This field displays whether the client is connected to the Device.
Host Name This field displays the client host name.
MAC Address The MAC (Media Access Control) or Ethernet address on a LAN (Local Area Network) is
unique to your computer (six pairs of hexadecimal notation).
A network interface card such as an Ethernet adapter has a hardwired address that is
assigned at the factory. This address follows an industry standard that ensures no other
adapter has a similar address.
IP Address This field displays the IP address relative to the # field listed above.
Reserve Select the check box in the heading row to automatically select all check boxes or select
individual entry check boxes in each entry to have the Device always assign the
selected entries's IP addresses to the corresponding MAC addresses and host names.
You can select up to 128 entries in this table.
Apply Click Apply to save your changes.
Cancel Click Cancel to restore your previously saved settings.
Refresh Click Refresh to reload the DHCP table.