Motorola 2200 Administrator's Handbook page 52

Administrator's Handbook
• DHCP Server: Your Gateway can provide network configuration information to computers on your LAN,
using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).
use the configuration information; DHCP calls this period the lease time.
Your Service Provider may, for certain services, want to provide configuration from its DHCP servers to the
computers on your LANs. In this case, the Gateway will relay the DHCP requests from your computers to a
DHCP server in the Service Provider's network. Click the relay-agent and enter the IP address of the Service
Provider's DHCP server in the Server Address field. This address is furnished by the Service Provider.
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NOTE:
The Relay-agent option only works when NAT is off and the Gateway is in router mode.
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If you already have a DHCP server on your LAN, you should
turn this service off.
If you want the Gateway to provide this service, click the
Server Mode
pull-down menu, choose Server, then con-
figure the range of IP addresses that you would like the
Gateway to hand out to your computers.
You can also specify the length of time the computers can