ZyXEL Communications 100WH RIP Setup, DHCP Configuration, Note on IP Address Assignment

Prestige 100WH Internet Access Router

Note on IP Address Assignment

Every machine on your Ethernet network must have a unique IP address. Do not assign an arbitrary address to any machine on your network; or else your machines will not communicate to each other, let alone accessing the Internet.

3.2.2RIP Setup

RIP (Routing Information Protocol) allows a router to exchange routing information with other routers. The RIP Direction field controls the sending and receiving of RIP packets. When set to both, the Prestige will broadcast its routing table periodically and incorporate the RIP information that it receives; when set to none, it will not send any RIP packets and will ignore any RIP packets received.

The Version field controls the format and the broadcasting method of the RIP packets that the Prestige sends (it recognizes both formats when receiving). RIP-1 is universally supported; but RIP-2 carries more information. RIP-1 is probably adequate for most networks, unless you have a unusual network topology.

Both RIP-2B and RIP-2M sends the routing data in RIP-2 format; the difference being that RIP-2B uses subnet broadcasting while RIP-2M uses multicasting. Multicasting can reduce the load on non-router machines since they generally do not listen to the RIP multicast address and so will not receive the RIP packets. However, if one router uses multicasting, then all routers on your network must use multicasting, as well.

By default, RIP direction is set to both and the version set to RIP-1.

3.2.3DHCP Configuration

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) allows the individual clients (workstations) to obtain the TCP/IP configuration at start-up from a centralized DHCP server. The Prestige has the DHCP server capability built-in and is enabled by default.

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