गुरुवार, 13 मई 2010
बुधवार, 12 मई 2010
How to Set up DHCP on a Local Area Network
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Decide what range of IP addresses you would like to use. You should use a "Private IP Range", otherwise you may well have problems related to traffic to and from your network being routed incorrectly. For a simple LAN, stick with 192.168.0.100, a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and a pool size of 50. This will allow up to 50 machines to be set up on your network without having to change anything. -
Set the IP address of your computer to 192.168.0.2 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 (an address in the same subnet as the addresses in the pool, but not an address in the pool itself!) -
Download dhcpd32 from http://tftpd32.jounin.net/ -
Unzip the file to your computer and run dhcpd32.exe -
Set the "IP pool starting address" to the address you want the first computer to use DHCP to have. (192.168.0.100 if you're not sure!) -
Set the "Size of pool" to a little more than the number of computers and devices you think you'll need on your LAN. (if in doubt, 50 is a nice number) -
Leave the "Boot File" field blank -
If you have a DNS server on your network, or one accessible to the machines on your network, enter it's IP address in the "WINS/DNS Server" box. If you don't, or don't know what it means, leave it blank. -
Set "Mask" to your subnet mask. If you don't know what that is, follow my addressing scheme and set it to 255.255.255.0 -
Leave the "Domain Name" and "Additional Option" boxes as they are. -
Press "Save". -
Your DHCP server is now set up!
- you're running Windows 98SE, ME or XP you may be able to use the built-in Windows Internet Connection Sharing which includes a DHCP server.
- Using this server along with a proxy server such as AnalogX Proxy gives you a free and flexible alternative to Windows ICS.
- If you don't know how to specify an IP address for your computer that runs the DHCP server, use on of the links here:
- Windows 2000 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308199&sd=tech
- 95 or 98 http://www.speed.net/support/ipchange/win98.html
- XP http://www.portforward.com/networking/static-xp.htm
- To have your machine ask for an IP address by DHCP, run "ipconfig /release" then "ipconfig /renew" for Windows 2000 and XP, or "winipcfg" in Windows 95, 98 and ME, select your network card in the dropdown box, click "release" then "renew".
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