Digi IX14 User Manual page 132

Interfaces
3. Click Network > Interfaces.
4. Click to expand an existing LAN, or create a new LAN. See
5. Click to expand IPv4 > DHCP server.
6. Enable the DHCP server.
7. (Optional) For Lease time, type the amount of time that a DHCP lease is valid.
Allowed values are any number of weeks, days, hours, minutes, or seconds, and take the
format number{w|d|h|m|s}.
For example, to set Lease time to ten minutes, enter 10m or 600s.
The default is 12 hours.
8. (Optional) For Lease range start and Lease range end, type the lowest and highest IP address
that the DHCP server will assign to a client. This value represents the low order byte of the
address (the final triplet in an IPv4 address, for example, 192.168.2.xxx). The remainder of the
IP address will be based on the LAN's static IP address as defined in the Address field.
Allowed values are between 1 and 254, and the default is 100 for Lease range start and 250
for Lease range end.
9. Optional DHCP server settings:
a. Click to expand Advanced settings.
b. For Gateway, select either:
n
n
n
The default is Automatic.
c. For MTU,
n
n
n
The default is Automatic.
d. For Domain name suffix, type the domain name that should be appended to host names.
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None: No gateway is broadcast by the DHCP server. Client destinations must be
resolvable without a gateway.
Automatic: Broadcasts the IX14 device's gateway.
Custom: Allows you to identify the IP address of a Custom gateway to be
broadcast.
None: An MTU of length 0 is broadcast. This is not recommended.
Automatic: No MTU is broadcast and clients will determine their own MTU.
Custom: Allows you to identify a Custom MTU to be broadcast.
Local Area Networks (LANs)
Configure a LAN.
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