Motorola Netopia 3342N - Manual (Page 52)

Administrator’s Handbook
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• DHCP Server: Your Gateway can provide network configuration information to computers on your LAN,
using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).
If you already have a DHCP ser ver on your LAN, you should
turn this ser vice off.
If you want the Gateway to provide this ser vice, click the
Server Mode pull-down menu, choose Server, then con-
figure the range of IP addresses that you would like the
Gateway to hand out to your computers.
You can also specify the length of time the computers can
use the configuration information; DHCP calls this period the lease time.
Your Ser vice Provider may, for cer tain ser vices, want to provide configuration from its DHCP ser vers to the
computers on your LANs. In this case, the Gateway will relay the DHCP requests from your computers to a
DHCP ser ver in the Ser vice Provider's network. Click the relay-agent and enter the IP address of the Ser vice
Provider's DHCP ser ver in the Ser ver Address field. This address is furnished by the Ser vice Provider.
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NOTE:
The Relay-agent option only works when NAT is off and the Gateway is in router mode.