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LAN Settings

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The gateway must have an IP address for the local network. You can also enable DHCP
service for dynamic IP address allocation to your clients, or configure filtering functions based
on specific clients or protocols.

• IP Setting
You can setup IP address information for the LAN ports of your wireless gateway.

• DHCP Server
Your wireless gateway can act as a DHCP server, and assign IP addresses to your clients
automatically. The assigned IP addressed will be within the range of IP pool that you specify.
There is a good security practice to set just enough range of IP pool for the devices you want
to connect to this wireless network. This can block other unintended devices to enter your
network.

Setting Lease Time for shorter period, such as one day or several hours, can free up IP
addresses frequently. However, you may experience brief network performance drag down or
stall when DHCP reassigning IP addresses to clients. It also causes a computer’s IP address

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