NETGEAR FVS318G manual Adding Devices to the Network Database

ProSafe Gigabit 8 Port VPN Firewall FVS318G Reference Manual

Adding Devices to the Network Database

To add devices manually to the network database:

1.To add computers to the network database manually, make the following selections:

•Name: The name of the PC or device.

•IP Address Type. From the pull-down menu, choose how this device receives its IP address:

–Select Fixed (Set on PC) if the IP address is statically assigned on the computer.

–Select Reserved (DHCP Client) to direct the VPN firewall to reserve the IP address for allocation by the DHCP server (see “Setting Up DHCP Address Reservation” on page 3-9).

Note: When assigning a reserved IP address to a client, the IP address selected must be outside the range of addresses allocated to the DHCP server pool.

•IP Address. Enter the IP address that this computer or device is assigned. If the IP Address Type is Reserved (DHCP Client), the VPN firewall will reserve the IP address for the associated MAC address.

•MAC Address. Enter the MAC address of the computer’s network interface. The MAC address format is six colon-separated pairs of hexadecimal characters (0-9 and A-F), such as 01:23:45:67:89:AB.

•Group. From the pull-down menu, select the group to which the computer has to be assigned. (Group 1 is the default group.)

2.Click Add to add the new entry to the network database.

3.As an optional step: To enable DHCP address reservation for the entry that you just added to the Known PCs and Devices table, select the checkbox for the table entry, and click Save Binding to bind the IP address to the MAC address for DHCP assignment.

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