Allied Telesis AT-WA1004G manual Buttons, Dhcp What Dhcp Does

Setup

DHCP Server	❏ If Enabled, the Wireless Router will allocate IP
	Addresses to PCs (DHCP clients) on your LAN
	when they start up. The default (and
	recommended) value is Enabled.
	❏ If you are already using a DHCP Server, this setting
	must be Disabled, and the existing DHCP server
	must be re-configured to treat the Wireless
	Router as the default Gateway. See the following
	section for further details.
	❏ The Start IP Address and Finish IP Address fields
	set the values used by the DHCP server when
	allocating IP Addresses to DHCP clients. This
	range also determines the number of DHCP
	clients supported.
	See the following section for further details on using
	DHCP.
Buttons
Save	Save the data on screen.
Cancel	The “Cancel” button will discard any data you have
	entered and reload the file from the Wireless Router.

DHCP What DHCP Does

A DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Server allocates a valid IP address to a DHCP Client (PC or device) upon request.

❑The client request is made when the client device starts up (boots).

❑The DHCP Server provides the Gateway and DNS addresses to the client, as well as allocating an IP Address.

❑The Wireless Router can act as a DHCP server.

❑Windows 95/98/ME and other non-Server versions of Windows will act as a DHCP client. This is the default Windows setting for the TCP/IP network protocol. However, Windows uses the term Obtain an IP Address automatically instead of “DHCP Client”.

❑You must NOT have two or more DHCP Servers on the same LAN segment. (If your LAN does not have other Routers, this means there must only be one (1) DHCP Server on your LAN.)

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