IP Setup
•The default DHCP Lease time is one hour. This may be unnecessarily brief in your network environment. Consequently, the DHCP lease time is configurable. The DHCP Lease Time (Hours) setting allows you to modify the gateway’s default lease time of one hour. You can enter any number up to and including 168 hours (one week) for the DHCP lease.
Note: About DHCP
Certain model gateways will allow the IP Address Server to
•If you configure the gateway with a 24 bit Subnet Mask (Class C), the gateway will continue serving from
•If you configure the gateway with a subnet smaller than a Class C subnet, the gateway will serve all available addresses.
•If you explicitly configure the DHCP pool,
•If you configure the gateway manually and you would like the gateway to
If you have configured multiple Ethernet IP subnets, the appearance of the IP Address Serving screen is altered slightly:
IP Address Serving
IP Address Serving Mode... | DHCP Server |
Configure Address Pools... |
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Serve DHCP Clients: | Yes |
DHCP Lease Time (Hours): | 1 |
DHCP NetBIOS Options... |
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Serve BOOTP Clients: | Yes |
Serve Dynamic WAN Clients | Yes |
Three menu items are hidden, and Configure Address Pools... appears instead. If you select Configure Address Pools... you will be taken to the IP Address Pools screen that allows you to configure an address serving pool for each of the configured Ethernet IP subnets. See “IP Address Pools” on page
IP Address Pools
The IP Address Pools screen allows you to configure a separate IP address serving pool for each of up to eight configured Ethernet IP subnets:
