Adding Devices To The Network Database - NETGEAR FVX538v2 - ProSafe VPN Firewall Dual WAN Reference Manual

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• MAC Address. The MAC address of the computer's network interface.
• Group. Each PC or device can be assigned to a single group. By default, a computer is
assigned to the first group (Group 1). To change the group assignment by selecting the Edit
link in the Action column.
• Action/Edit. Allows modification of the selected entry.

Adding Devices to the Network Database

To add devices manually to the Network Database:
1. To add computers to the network database manually, fill in the following fields:
• Name: The name of the PC or device.
• IP Address Type. From the pull-down menu, choose how this device receives its IP
address:
– Select Fixed (Set on PC) if the IP address is statically assigned on the computer.
– Select Reserved (DHCP Client) to direct the VPN firewall to reserve the IP address
for allocation by the DHCP server (see
page 3-9).
Note: When assigning a reserved IP address to a client, the IP address selected
• IP Address. The IP address that this computer or device is assigned. If the IP Address
Type is Reserved (DHCP Client), the VPN firewall will reserve the IP address for the
associated MAC address.
• MAC Address. The MAC address of the computer's network interface. The MAC
address format is six colon-separated pairs of hexadecimal characters (0-9 and A-F), such
as 01:23:45:67:89:AB.
• Group. The group to which the computer has to be assigned. (Group 1 is the default
group.)
2. Click Add to add the new entry to the network database.
3. As an optional step: To enable DHCP address reservation for the entry that you just added to
the Known PCs and Devices table, select the checkbox for the table entry and click Save
Binding to bind the IP address to the MAC address for DHCP assignment.
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must be outside the range of addresses allocated to the DHCP server pool.
v1.0, January 2010
"Setting Up DHCP Address Reservation" on
LAN Configuration