Billion Electric Company BIPAC 8500 User Manual

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Billion BIPAC-8500 / 8520 SHDSL VPN Firewall Bridge / Router 
 
 
Chapter 4: Configuration 
 
 
 
 
DHCP Server   
You can disable or enable the DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server or 
enable the router’s DHCP relay functions. The DHCP protocol allows your router to 
dynamically assign IP addresses to PCs on your network if they are configured to obtain 
IP addresses automatically. 
 
 
To disable the router’s DHCP Server, check Disabled  and click Next, then click Apply. 
When the DHCP Server is disabled you will need to manually assign a fixed IP address to 
each PCs on your network, and set the default gateway for each PCs to the IP address of 
the router (by default this is 192.168.1.254). 
To configure the router’s DHCP Server, check DHCP Server and click Next. You can then 
configure parameters of the DHCP Server including the IP pool (starting IP address and 
ending IP address to be allocated to PCs on your network), lease time for each assigned 
IP address (the period of time the IP address assigned will be valid), DNS IP address and 
the gateway IP address. These details are sent to the DHCP client (i.e. your PC) when it 
requests an IP address from the DHCP server. Click Apply to enable this function. If you 
check “Use Router as a DNS Server”, the SHDSL Router will perform the domain name 
lookup, find the IP address from the outside network automatically and forward it back to 
the requesting PC in the LAN (your Local Area Network).  
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