Actiontec MI424WR (GigE) User Manual

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Actiontec Wireless Broadband Router User Manual

Chapter 5 Using Network Connections

DNS Server
Domain Name System (

DNS

) is the method by which website or domain names

are translated into

addresses. The connection can be set to automatically

obtain a

DNS

server address, or an address can be set manually, according to

information provided by the

ISP

To configure the connection to automatically obtain a

DNS

server address, select

Obtain DNS Server Address Automatically from the “

DNS

Server” drop-down

list. To manually configure

DNS

server addresses, select Use the Following DNS

Server Addresses. Specify up to two different

DNS

server addresses, one pri-

mary, the other secondary.

IP Address Distribution
The “IP Address Distribution” section of the Configure Broadband Connection
(Coax) screen allows the user to configure the Router’s Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol (

DHCP

) server parameters. The

DHCP

automatically

assigns

addresses to network devices. If enabled, make sure to configure the

network devices as “

DHCP

Clients.” There are three options in this section:

Disabled, DHCP Server, and DHCP Relay.

Caution: Actiontec strongly recommends leaving this setting

at “Disabled.”

Disabled Select this option if statically assigning

addresses to the network

devices.

DHCP Server To set up the

WAN

Coax Link Ethernet connection to function as a

DHCP

server:

1. Select DHCP Server.

2. Enter the

address at which the Router starts issuing addresses in the

“Start

Address” text boxes. Since the Router’s default

address is

192.168.1.1, the Start

Address must be 192.168.1.2.

3. Enter the end of the

address range used to automatically issue

address-

es in the “End

Address” text boxes.

4. Enter the subnet mask address in the “Subnet Mask” text boxes. The subnet

mask determines which portion of a destination

LAN IP

address is the net-

work portion, and which portion is the host portion.