PLANET VIP-1680 - Manual (Page 25)

DHCP Server Configuration
DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. It can automatically dispatch related IP settings
to any local user configured as a DHCP client. The DHCP server supports up to 253 users (PCs) on
Yes: Enables the DHCP server. No: Disables the DHCP server.
Start IP Address Sets the start IP address of the IP address pool.
End IP Address Sets the end of IP address in the IP address pool.
DNS Server IP Address DNS stands for Domain Name System. Every Internet host.
must have a unique IP address, also they may have a human
friendly, easy to remember name such as www.yahoo.com. The
DNS server converts the human friendly name into it’s
equivalent IP address.
Primary IP Address Sets the IP address of the primary DNS server.
Secondary IP Address Sets the IP address of the secondary DNS server.
Virtual Server
“Natural firewall” allows requests for Internet access from the local network. However, any request from
the Internet to the local network is blocked. By setting the Virtual Server function, computers outside
the Intranet are allowed to access specific ports of local client. The Virtual Server Port Table may be
used to expose internal servers to the public domain or open a specific port number to internal hosts.
Internet hosts can use the WAN IP address to access internal network services, such as FTP, WWW,
and Telnet etc.
How to set a Virtual Server
The following example shows how an internal FTP server is exposed to the public domain. The internal
FTP server is running on the local host addressed as 192.168.0.100.
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