NETGEAR DGFV338 manual LAN Ports and Attached Devices, Known PCs and Devices

DGFV338 ProSafe Wireless ADSL Modem VPN Firewall Router Reference Manual

LAN Ports and Attached Devices

Known PCs and Devices

The Known PCs and Devices table contains a table of all IP devices that the firewall has discovered on the local network. This screen is accessible from the Administration main menu and the LAN Groups submenu. The Groups and Hosts screen will display showing the Known PCs and Devices table shown below:.

Figure 6-7

The Groups and Hosts database is an automatically-maintained list of all known PCs and network devices. PCs and devices become known by the following methods:

•DHCP Client Requests. By default, the DHCP server in this Router is enabled, and will accept and respond to DHCP client requests from PCs and other network devices. These requests also generate an entry in the Network Database. Because of this, leaving the DHCP Server feature (on the LAN screen) enabled is strongly recommended.

•Scanning the Network. The local network is scanned using standard methods such as ARP. This will detect active devices which are not DHCP clients. However, sometimes the name of the PC or device cannot be accurately determined and will be shown as Unknown.

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v1.0, April 2007