Bridge GUI Guide: Network Configuration
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If
Auto Addressing
will be left at its default of
Enabled
(see below), you should leave these settings at their
defaults (
::
).
If you opt to disable
Auto Addressing
, you must enter
IPv6 addresses in the usual format.
The Bridge’s IPv6 DHCP server has an additional setting:
Auto Addressing
- configures the IPv6 DHCP server to
automatically define its address pool. When
Auto
Addressing
is
Enabled
(the default), the IPv6 server’s
manually configured
IP Range Min.
and
IP Range Max.
should remain undefined (at the default
::
setting).
To configure internal DHCP servers:
1
Log on to the Bridge GUI through an
Administrator
-level
account and select
ADVANCED
VIEW
in the upper right corner
of the page, then
Configure
->
DHCP/DNS
from the menu on
the left.
2
In the frame for the type of DHCP server you are
configuring, IPv4 DCHP or IPv6 DHCP, select/enter new
values for the settings you want to configure (described
above).
3
Click
APPLY
in the upper right of the screen (or
RESET
screen settings to cancel your changes).
When Bridge DHCP servers are enabled, the fields that
configure their address pools are grayed out to indicate that
you cannot reconfigure the address pool while the server is
running. You must disable the server to re-enable these fields
for editing.
3.6.2
DNS Service
When enabled (the default), the Bridge’s internal DNS server
provides local network name-to-IP address resolution, for both
IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
The Bridge’s domain name,
ftimesh.local
by default, is
configured in Advanced View in the
Network Configuration
frame on
Configure
->
Administration
.
The Bridge’s DNS service learns name-to-IP address mapping
for locally resolved names from any of three sources:
user entries to the DNS Host to IP Map (see below)
when a DHCP server is available, from DHCP requests
when FastPath Mesh is used for bridging, from name-to-IP
address mappings learned by the other Mesh Points (i.e.,
peer nodes) in the FP Mesh network
For manual entries, you can map a single name to multiple IP
address and associate a single IP address with multiple
names.