D-Link DFL-500 Providing Dhcp services to your internal network, Go to System Network Dhcp

•Repeat these steps to add more routes as required.

Providing DHCP services to your internal network

If the DFL-500 NPG is operating in NAT/Route mode, you can configure it to be the DHCP server for your internal network:

•Go to System > Network > DHCP .

•Select Enable DHCP.

•Configure the DHCP settings.

Starting IP Ending IP

Netmask

Lease Duration

Domain

DNS IP

Default

Route

Exclusion Range

Enter Starting IP and the Ending IP to configure the range of IP addresses that the DFL-500 NPG can assign to DHCP clients. The addresses must be addresses on your internal network.

Enter the Netmask that the DFL-500 NPG assigns to the DHCP clients.

Enter the interval in seconds after which a DHCP client must ask the DHCP server for a new address. The lease duration must be between 300 and 604800 seconds.

Optionally enter in the domain that the DHCP server assigns to the DHCP clients.

Enter the IP addresses of up to 3 DNS servers that the DHCP clients can use for looking up domain names.

Enter the default route to be assigned to DHCP clients. The default route should be on the same subnet as the Starting and Ending IP addresses.

Optionally enter up to 4 exclusion ranges of IP addresses within the starting IP and ending IP addresses that cannot be assigned to DHCP clients.

•Select Apply.

•Configure the IP network settings of the computers on your network to obtain an IP address automatically using DHCP.

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