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• The ability to view the host name associated with a client to which the gateway has leased an IP address.
• The ability for the gateway’s Ethernet IP address(es) to overlap the DHCP address serving pool(s).
• The ability to serve as a DHCP Relay Agent.
The Netopia Firmware Version 8.4 supports reserving an IP address only for a type 1 client identifier (i.e., an
Ethernet hardware address). It does not support reserving an IP address for an arbitrary client identifier. (For
more information on client identifiers, see RFC 2131, section 9.14.)
Configuring the IP Address Server options
To access the enhanced DHCP server functions, from the Main Menu navigate to Statistics & Logs and then
Served IP Addresses.
The following example shows the Served IP Addresses screen after three clients have leased IP addresses. The
first client did not provide a Host Name in its DHCP messages; the second and third clients did.
The rightmost column displays the host name supplied by the client if one was provided; otherwise it displays
the client identifier. (If a host name is displayed, the client identifier is still accessible in a Details pop-up menu.
See below.)
Note: The server does not query the client for its host name. Macintosh computers running versions of
MacOS prior to MacOS version 8.5 (OT 2.0.1, TCP/IP 2.0.1) do not supply a host name option in their DHCP
messages, so no host name will appear in the Served IP Addresses list.
Served IP
Statistics & Logs
Main
Menu Addresses
Served IP Addresses
-IP Address------Type----Expires—-Host Name/Client Identifier-----------------
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192.168.1.100
192.168.1.101
192.168.1.102
192.168.1.103 DHCP 00:59 EN: 00-00-C5-70-00-04
192.168.1.104 DHCP 00:59 Bill’s Pentium
192.168.1.105 DHCP 00:45 Steve’s Power Mac
192.168.1.106
192.168.1.107
192.168.1.108
192.168.1.109
192.168.1.110
192.168.1.111
192.168.1.112
192.168.1.113
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