Manually Distributing Ip Addresses; Using Address Serving - Netopia 435 Reference Manual

C-10 Netopia ISDN Router Reference Guide
host without an IP address will be forced to wait until a host with
one is turned off or gives up its IP address for some other reason.

Manually distributing IP addresses

If you choose to manually distribute IP addresses, you must enter
each computer's address into its TCP/IP stack software. Once you
manually issue an address to a computer, it possesses that
address until you manually remove it. That's why manually
distributed addresses are sometimes called static addresses.
Static addresses are useful in cases when you want to make sure
that a host on your network cannot have its address taken away by
the address server. A network administrator's computer, a computer
dedicated to communicating with the Internet, and routers are
appropriate candidates for a static address.

Using address serving

The Netopia ISDN Router provides two ways to serve IP addresses
to computers on a network. The first, Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol (DHCP), is supported by PCs with Microsoft Windows and a
TCP/IP stack. Macintosh computers using Open Transport and
computers using the UNIX operating system may also be able to use
DHCP. The second way, MacIP, is for Macintosh computers. MacIP is
provided with the Netopia Internet Software Starter Kit.
The Netopia ISDN Router can use both DHCP and MacIP. Whether
you use one or both will depend on your particular networking
environment. If that environment includes both PCs and Macintosh
computers that do not use Open Transport, you will need to use
both DHCP and MacIP to distribute IP addresses to all of your
computers.