P314 Broadband Sharing Gateway with
3.1.5 DHCP Configuration
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, RFC 2131 and RFC 2132) allows the individual clients (workstations) to obtain the TCP/IP configuration at
IP Pool Setup
The Prestige is
DNS Server Address
DNS (Domain Name System) is for mapping a domain name to its corresponding IP address and vice versa, e.g., the IP address of www.zyxel.com is 204.217.0.2. The DNS server is extremely important because without it, you must know the IP address of a machine before you can access it.
There are two ways that an ISP disseminates the DNS server addresses. The first is for an ISP to tell a customer the DNS server addresses, usually in the form of an information sheet, when you sign up. If your ISP does give you the DNS server addresses, enter them in the DNS Server fields in DHCP Setup. The second is to leave this field blank, i.e., 0.0.0.0 – in this case the Prestige acts as a DNS proxy.
Example Of Network Properties For LAN Servers With Fixed IP#:
Choose an IP: | 192.168.1.2 – 192.168.1.32; 192.168.1.65 - 192.168.1.254. |
Netmask: | 255.255.255.0 |
Gateway (or default route): | 192.168.1.1 (Prestige LAN IP) |
DNS server: | 192.168.1.1 |
Domain: | (optional) |
3.1.6 IP Multicast
Traditionally, IP packets are transmitted in one of either two ways - Unicast (1 sender – 1 recipient) or Broadcast (1 sender – everybody on the network). Multicast is a third way to deliver IP packets to a group of hosts on the network - not everybody.
IGMP (Internet Group Multicast Protocol) is a
Internet Access |