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•The ability to view the host name associated with a client to which the gateway has leased an IP address.
•The ability for the gateway’s Ethernet IP address(es) to overlap the DHCP address serving pool(s).
•The ability to serve as a DHCP Relay Agent.
The Netopia Firmware Version 8.4 supports reserving an IP address only for a type 1 client identifier (i.e., an Ethernet hardware address). It does not support reserving an IP address for an arbitrary client identifier. (For more information on client identifiers, see RFC 2131, section 9.14.)
Configuring the IP Address Server options
To access the enhanced DHCP server functions, from the Main Menu navigate to Statistics & Logs and then Served IP Addresses.
Main
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Statistics & Logs
Served IP Addresses
The following example shows the Served IP Addresses screen after three clients have leased IP addresses. The first client did not provide a Host Name in its DHCP messages; the second and third clients did.
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192.168.1.101 |
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192.168.1.102 |
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192.168.1.103 | DHCP | 00:59 | EN: |
192.168.1.104 | DHCP | 00:59 | Bill’s Pentium |
192.168.1.105 | DHCP | 00:45 | Steve’s Power Mac |
192.168.1.106
192.168.1.107
192.168.1.108
192.168.1.109
192.168.1.110
192.168.1.111
192.168.1.112
192.168.1.113
Lease Management...
The rightmost column displays the host name supplied by the client if one was provided; otherwise it displays the client identifier. (If a host name is displayed, the client identifier is still accessible in a Details
Note: The server does not query the client for its host name. Macintosh computers running versions of MacOS prior to MacOS version 8.5 (OT 2.0.1, TCP/IP 2.0.1) do not supply a host name option in their DHCP messages, so no host name will appear in the Served IP Addresses list.
