Section 3 - Configuration
DHCP Server Settings
DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Control Protocol. The
Enable DHCP Server:
DHCP IP Address Range:
Check this box to enable the DHCP server on your router. Uncheck to disable this function.
Enter the starting and ending IP addresses for the DHCP server’s IP assignment.
Note: If you statically (manually) assign IP addresses to your computers or devices, make sure the IP addresses are outside of this range or you may have an IP conflict.
DHCP Lease Time: The length of time for the IP address lease. Enter the Lease time in minutes.
Always If all the computers on the LAN successfully obtain their Broadcast: IP addresses from the router’s DHCP server as expected, this option can remain disabled. However, if one of the computers on the LAN fails to obtain an IP address from the router’s DHCP server, it may have an old DHCP client that incorrectly turns off the broadcast flag of DHCP packets.
Enabling this option will cause the router to always broadcast its responses to all clients, thereby working around the problem, at the cost of increased broadcast traffic on the LAN.
NetBIOS Check this box to allow the DHCP Server to offer NetBIOS configuration settings to the LAN hosts. NetBIOS allow LAN hosts to Announcement: discover all other computers within the network, e.g. within Network Neighborhood.
Learn NetBIOS If NetBIOS announcement is switched on, it will cause WINS information to be learned from the WAN side, if available. Turn this from WAN: setting off to configure manually.
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