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How To Configure DHCP Dynamic Pools
You can configure the DHCP Server
on the IT-100 to automatically
assign IP addresses to all of the computers on your Local
Area Network and your Wireless
Network. This means that you do not have to configure each of the
computers in your network with an IP address manually, saving you administrative
time. Also, when you allow IP addresses to be assigned to your networked
computers automatically, you have less of a risk of an individual computer's
address and subnet mask being misconfigured causing a connection failure.
Dynamic DHCP can also assign networked computers with addresses for the
Default Gateway, Primary and Secondary
DNS servers and Primary and Secondary
WINS servers. Networked
devices that provide specific
resources on the network should
only be assigned addresses manually rather than dynamically. Such
devices include servers, routers, switches,
and network printers.
In order to assign IP addresses to the computers on your network, you must first configure a DHCP Dynamic pool.
A dynamic pool is a collection of IP
addresses that are reserved for the sole purpose of dynamic IP address
assignment. That means they are only used to assign IP address
information to workstation computers on your network. The addresses must
be part of the IP addressing scheme for your network and they
must not be used in any other pool such as a VPN pool or be statically
assigned to another network devices.
To Configure DHCP dynamic pools:
Go to CoreVista
Web Click DHCP
in the left-hand sidebar menu Click the Dynamic
file under the DHCP folder in
the menu
The DHCP Dynamic
Pools page appears Note:
you can configure DHCP Dynamic Pools
on the WAN, LAN
and Wireless network interfaces.
It is not recommended that you
configure a DHCP Pool on the WAN interface
since this interface is usually your connection
to the Internet. You will most likely configure such pools on your
LAN interface, your Wireless
interface, or both.
Click ADD
next to the name of the interface
where you want to configure a dynamic pool
The Create a
Dynamic Pool wizard launches Note:
most of the fields on this page are already populated with the appropriate
IP address information by default if you configured the IT-100 to be a
DHCP server during Express Setup. You should only have to configure the
Start and End
of the DHCP pool
Type the IP address
that begins the DHCP pool in the
Starting IP field Type the IP address
that ends the DHCP pool in the
Ending IP field
Note:
every IP address between the Starting IP and the Ending IP will be included
in the pool. For example, if you
create a pool on the LAN interface that starts
with 10.9.8.50 and ends with 10.9.8.75,
every IP address between those two addresses will be part of your pool
(i.e 10.9.8.50, 10.9.8.51, 10.9.8.52...10.9.8.73, 10.9.8.74, 10.9.8.75).
You must not use any of these addresses for any other purpose on your
network. Also, these addresses
must be part of your IP addressing scheme
on your network. The above example assumes that the address of your network is 10.9.8.0 with a subnet
mask of 255.255.255.0 which means that you would have 254
usable addresses on your network starting
at 10.9.8.1 and ending at 10.9.8.254
(10.9.8.0 and 10.9.8.255 have specific purposes on your network and cannot
be assigned to computers or other network devices)
Click CREATE
Note:
Click RESET if you want to cancel
your configuration of the DHCP pool The page will refresh and you will be taken to
the main DHCP Dynamic Pools page. Your new
pool will be visible in the Dynamic
pools box for the interface you configured Note:
You can edit a dynamic pool by
clicking on the edit pencil symbol
by the pool you want to edit. You can also delete
a dynamic pool by clicking on the delete
trash can symbol by the pool you want to delete. To add an additional
pool for an interface, click the ADD
button in the box of the interface you want to set up for another pool Note:
Even though the IT-100 is now configured to issue IP addresses automatically
to computers on your network, your computers will not be able to receive
those addresses unless they are configured to do so. Please see How To Configure Windows XP to Accept IP Addresses
via DHCP for more information
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