DHCP Pool

A DHCP Pool is a collection of IP addresses that are part of your LAN or wireless network. The IT-100's DHCP server uses the DHCP Pool to assign those addresses to computers on those networks. You typically will create a DHCP Pool for your LAN interface, wireless interface, or both. Any pool you create must use IP addresses that belong to the network addressing scheme for a specific interface. For example, if you want to serve dynamic IP addresses to computers on your LAN, you must reserve a collection of addresses that are part of the LAN. The default IP address for the LAN port of the IT-100 is 10.9.8.7. This means that the IP addresses available to be assigned to computers connected to the LAN, minus 10.9.8.7 range from 10.9.8.1 to 10.9.8.254.

You can use any portion of this range to create your DHCP Pool however any addresses you use for your pool must not be used for any other purpose. If you try to use the same IP address on more than one device, you will cause a conflict on the network and at least one of those devices will not be able to communicate to the network. In the above example, you could select a range of addresses from 10.9.8.101 to 10.9.8.125 for your DHCP Pool. This would allow you to dynamically assign IP addresses to up to 25 computers on the LAN.  See DHCP in the Glossary for more information. Also see the DHCP sections in the FAQs and HOW TOs for additional details.