Netopia Firmware 4000-Series User Manual

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Go to the System Configuration screen. Select IP Address Serving and press Return. The IP Address Ser ving
screen will appear.

Follow these steps to configure IP Address Ser ving:

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If you enabled IP Address Ser ving, then DHCP, BootP clients and Dynamic WAN clients are automatically
enabled.

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The IP Address Serving Mode pop-up menu allows you to choose the way in which the Router will ser ve IP
addresses. The device can act as either a DHCP Ser ver or a DHCP Relay Agent. (See

“DHCP Relay Agent”

on page 6-30

for more information.) In most cases, you will use the device to ser ve its own pool of IP

addresses, hence DHCP Ser ver is the default. Address ser ving can also be disabled.

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Select Number of Client IP Addresses and enter the total number of contiguous IP addresses that the
Router will distribute to the client machines on your local area network. Twelve-user models are limited to
twelve IP addresses.

In the screen example shown above, five Client IP addresses have been allocated.

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Select 1st Client Address and enter the first client IP address that you will allocate to your first client
machine. For instance, on your local area network you may want to first figure out which machines are going
to be allocated specific static IP addresses so that you can determine the pool of IP addresses that you will
be ser ving addresses from via DHCP, BootP, and/or Dynamic WAN.

Example: Your ISP has given your Router the IP address 192.168.6.137, with a subnet mask of
255.255.255.248. The subnet mask allocated will give you six IP addresses to use when connecting to the
ISP over the Internet. Your address range will be from .137 – .143. In this example you would enter
192.168.6.138 as the 1st Client Address, since the router itself must have an IP address.

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To enable DHCP, select Serve DHCP Clients and toggle it to Yes. DHCP ser ving is automatic when IP
Address Ser ving is enabled.

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The default DHCP Lease time is one hour. This may be unnecessarily brief in your network environment.

Serve DHCP Clients: Yes
DHCP Lease Time (Hours): 1
DHCP NetBIOS Options...

Serve BOOTP Clients: Yes

Serve Dynamic WAN Clients Yes