Prestige 324 Intelligent Broadband Sharing Gateway

Table 7-3 LAN DHCP Setup Menu Fields

FIELD

DESCRIPTION

EXAMPLE

 

 

 

DHCP

This field enables/disables the DHCP server. If it is set to Server,

Server

 

your Prestige will act as a DHCP server. If set to None, DHCP

(default)

 

service will be disabled and you must have another DHCP sever

 

 

on your LAN, or else the workstation must be manually configured.

 

 

When DHCP is set to Server, the following four items need to be

 

 

set.

 

 

 

 

Configuration:

 

 

Client IP Pool Starting

This field specifies the first of the contiguous addresses in the IP

192.168.1.33

Address

address pool.

 

 

 

 

Size of Client IP Pool

This field specifies the size, or count, of the IP address pool.

32

 

 

 

Primary DNS Server

Enter the IP addresses of the DNS servers. The DNS servers are

 

Secondary DNS

passed to the DHCP clients along with the IP address and the

 

Server

subnet mask. Leave these entries at 0.0.0.0 if a WAN DHCP

 

 

server provides them.

 

 

 

 

Follow the instructions in the table shown next to configure TCP/IP parameters for the LAN port.

Table 7-4 LAN TCP/IP Setup Menu Fields

FIELD

DESCRIPTION

EXAMPLE

 

 

 

TCP/IP Setup:

 

 

IP Address

Enter the IP address of your Prestige in dotted decimal notation

192.168.1.1

 

 

(default)

 

 

 

IP Subnet Mask

Your Prestige will automatically calculate the subnet mask based on

255.255.255.0

 

the IP address that you assign. Unless you are implementing

 

 

subnetting, use the subnet mask computed by the Prestige

 

 

 

 

RIP Direction

Press the [SPACE BAR] to select the RIP direction.

Both

 

Options are Both, In Only, Out Only or None.

(default)

 

 

 

Version

Press the [SPACE BAR] to select the RIP version.

RIP-1

 

Options are RIP-1, RIP-2Bor RIP-2M.

(default)

Multicast

IGMP (Internet Group Multicast Protocol) is a session-layer protocol

None

 

used to establish membership in a Multicast group. The Prestige

 

 

supports both IGMP version 1 (IGMP-v1) and IGMP-v2. Press the

 

 

[SPACE BAR] to enable IP Multicasting or select None (default) to

 

 

disable it.

 

 

 

 

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