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IP configuration
In order to do this, the sender needs to have the IP address of the
gateway for his subnet. Normally, the lowest available node number in
the subnet (the network address plus one) is used as the gateway
address.
A gateway can be a dedicated device, or a software package on one of
the computers in your network. The gateway has two network
connections, one for each network. One supplier of gateway software is
Sygate (www.sygate.com).
A.2.6
MAC address
Every Ethernet device has a unique address that is permanently linked
to that device. It cannot be changed. On most wireless devices, the MAC
address is printed on its type label.
The MAC address consists of six groups of two digits each (e.g.
00:10:91:00:00:00).
A.3
IP configuration
The most basic way to configure IP settings is by entering the numbers
manually on every host. This is somewhat complicated because every
host in the subnet has to have the same subnet number but a unique
node number. Also, the correct
will have to be entered. Not
doing this properly will result in errors.
To simplify managing an IP network, several automated methods have
been introduced. The two most important ones are
and
A.3.1
DHCP
When a network uses DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol),
one host in the network contains a DHCP server. Whenever a device
joins the network it asks the DHCP server for an
The DHCP server sends back a unique
for
this subnet and the IP address of the
. The DHCP server keeps
track of which hosts have requested an IP address and which IP they
have been given.
For large networks, DHCP is a convenient way of managing IP
configurations, but in small networks the benefits often do not
compensate the overhead of installing and managing the DHCP server.
A.3.2
Auto IP
Auto IP, also known as APIPA (Automatic Personal IP Assignment) is a
method in which no server is needed.
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Страница 38: ...38 version 1 0 Technical specifications 11 Mbps WLAN Access Point Other specifications ...
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