Netopia R3100 User Manual

The figure above shows an example of a block of IP addresses being distributed correctly.

The example follows these rules:

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An IP address must not be used as a static address if it is also in a range of addresses being distributed 
by DHCP or MacIP. 

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A single IP address range is used by all the address-ser ved clients. These include DHCP, BOOTP, MacIP, 
and WAN clients, even though BOOTP and static MacIP clients might not be considered ser ved. 

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The address range specified for address-ser ved clients cannot wrap around from the end of the total 
available range back to the beginning. See below for a fur ther explanation and an example.

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The network address issued by an ISP cannot be used as a host address.

Suppose, for example, that your ISP gave your network the IP address 199.1.1.32, and a 4-bit subnet mask. 
Address 199.1.1.32 is reser ved as the network address. Address 199.1.1.47 is reser ved as the broadcast 
address. This leaves 14 addresses to allocate, from 199.1.1.33 through 199.1.1.46. If you want to allocate a 
sub-block of 10 addresses using DHCP, enter “10” in the DHCP Setup screen’s Number of Addresses to 
Allocate item. Then, in the same screen’s First Address item, enter the first address in the sub-block to 
allocate such that all 10 addresses are within your original block. You could enter 199.1.1.33, or 199.1.1.37, 
or any address between them. Note that if you entered 199.1.1.42 as the first address, network routing errors 
would probably result because you would be using a range with addresses that do not belong to your network 
(199.1.1.49, 199.1.1.50, and 199.1.1.51).

Block of IP host addresses

Manually distributed
(static)

Pool of Addresses Distributed

Distributed to the 

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1

5
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(derived from network IP 
address + mask issued by ISP)

(Ethernet IP address)

by MacIP and DHCP

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