LinkMAX
HSA300 User Manual
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4. Enter
the
Start IP Address
,
End IP Address
,
Net Mask
, and
Gateway Address
fields are required; the others are optional.
The following table describes each field.
Field
Description
Start/End IP
Addresses
Specify the lowest and highest addresses
in the pool.
Mac Address
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. (A MAC
address is a manufacturer-assigned
hardware ID that is unique for each device
on a network.) 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 address
in this range refers to the network and
which portion refers to the host
(computer). For a description of network
masks and LAN network masks, see
Appendix 0. You can use the network
mask to distinguish which pool of
addresses should be distributed to a
particular subset of computers on your
LAN (called a
subnet
).
Domain Name
A user-friendly name that refers to the
group of computers (subnet) that will be
assigned addresses from this pool.
Gateway
Address
The address of the default gateway for
computers that receive IP addresses from
this pool. The default gateway is the IP
address that the computers first contact to
communicate with the Internet. Typically, it
is the device’s LAN port IP address. See
“Hops and gateways” on page 73 for an
explanation of gateway addresses.
DNS/SDNS
Address
The IP address of the
Domain Name
System
server and
Secondary Domain
Name System
server to be used by
computers that receive IP addresses from
this pool. These DNS servers translate
common Internet names that you type into
your web browser into their equivalent
numeric IP addresses. Typically, these
servers are located with your ISP.
