Motorola Netopia 3342N - Manual (Page 96)

Administrator’s Handbook
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Link: 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, select Server from the Server Mode pull-down menu,
then configure 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.
Select Relay-agent and enter the IP address of the Service Provider's DHCP server in the Server 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.