Dhcp Clients - Tenda A5 User Manual

IP pool end address: Enter the ending IP address for the
DHCP server's IP assignment.
Lease Time: The length of time for the IP address lease.
Configuring a proper lease time improves the efficiency for
the DHCP server to reclaim disused IP addresses.

3.3.2 DHCP Clients

This section not only displays a DHCP dynamic client list but
also includes a configurable Static DHCP assignment feature.
The DHCP client list displays the obtained IP addresses from A5's
built-in DHCP server, MAC addresses, host names and lease time.
If you would like some devices on your network to always have
fixed IP addresses, you can manually add a static DHCP
assignment entry for each such device. You can manually add an
IP address and a MAC address and check the IP-MAC Binding
option, and then whenever a host with this MAC address connects
to the router, it will always get the same IP address (the one you
just added). According to the connected computer's MAC address,
the router checks relevant entries in its DHCP reservation list and
decides what IP address to assign to this host (an unused IP from
DHCP IP address pool, or a reserved one): If it fails in finding a
reserved IP address bound to the PC with this MAC address in the
list, it will immediately assign an unused IP from its DHCP IP
address pool; and if such IP is found, it will be assigned to this
host so as to ensure that host with a DHCP reservation always get
this fixed reserved IP address. Once a host registers DHCP
reservation to have a fixed IP address bound to its MAC address,
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