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 Chapter 7 Home Networking
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7.7  Home Networking Technical Reference
This section provides some technical background information about the topics covered in this 
chapter.
7.7.1  
LANs, WANs and the ADSL Router
The actual physical connection determines whether the ADSL Router ports are LAN or WAN ports. 
There are two separate IP networks, one inside the LAN network and the other outside the WAN 
network as shown next.
Figure 44   
LAN and WAN IP Addresses
7.7.2  DHCP Setup
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, RFC 2131 and RFC 2132) allows individual clients to 
obtain TCP/IP configuration at start-up from a server. You can configure the ADSL Router as a DHCP 
server or disable it. When configured as a server, the ADSL Router provides the TCP/IP 
configuration for the clients. If you turn DHCP service off, you must have another DHCP server on 
your LAN, or else the computer must be manually configured. 
IP Pool Setup
The ADSL Router is pre-configured with a pool of IP addresses for the DHCP clients (DHCP Pool).  
Do not assign static IP addresses from the DHCP pool to your LAN computers.
7.7.3  DNS Server Addresses 
DNS (Domain Name System) maps a domain name to its corresponding IP address and vice versa. 
The DNS server is extremely important because without it, you must know the IP address of a 
computer before you can access it. The DNS server addresses you enter when you set up DHCP are 
passed to the client machines along with the assigned IP address and subnet mask.
There are two ways that an ISP disseminates the DNS server addresses. 
• The ISP tells you the DNS server addresses, usually in the form of an information sheet, when 
you sign up. If your ISP gives you DNS server addresses, enter them in the DNS Server fields in 
the DHCP Setup screen.
WAN
LAN