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" Regardless of your particular situation, do not create an arbitrary IP address;

always follow the guidelines above. For more information on address

assignment, please refer to RFC 1597, Address Allocation for Private Internets

and RFC 1466, Guidelines for Management of IP Address Space.

MAC Address

Every Ethernet device has a unique MAC (Media Access Control) address. The MAC address

is assigned at the factory and consists of six pairs of hexadecimal characters, for example,

00:1B:39:00:00:02.

DHCP

The LAN-Cell can use DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, RFC 2131 and RFC

2132) to automatically assign IP addresses subnet masks, gateways, and some network

information like the IP addresses of DNS servers to the computers on your LAN. You can

alternatively have the LAN-Cell relay DHCP information from another DHCP server. If you

disable the LAN-Cell’s DHCP service, you must have another DHCP server on your LAN, or

else the computers must be manually configured.

IP Pool Setup

The LAN-Cell is pre-configured with a pool of IP addresses for the computers on your LAN.

See Appendix on page 575 for the default IP pool range. Do not assign your LAN computers

static IP addresses that are in the DHCP pool.

RIP Setup

RIP (Routing Information Protocol, RFC 1058 and RFC 1389) allows a router to exchange

routing information with other routers. RIP Direction controls the sending and receiving of

RIP packets. When set to Both or Out Only, the LAN-Cell will broadcast its routing table

periodically. When set to Both or In Only, it will incorporate the RIP information that it

receives; when set to None, it will not send any RIP packets and will ignore any RIP packets

received.

RIP Version controls the format and the broadcasting method of the RIP packets that the

LAN-Cell sends (it recognizes both formats when receiving). RIP-1 is universally supported;

but RIP-2 carries more information. RIP-1 is probably adequate for most networks, unless you

have an unusual network topology.

Both RIP-2B and RIP-2M send routing data in RIP-2 format; the difference being that RIP-

2B uses subnet broadcasting while RIP-2M uses multicasting. Multicasting can reduce the

load on non-router machines since they generally do not listen to the RIP multicast address

and so will not receive the RIP packets. However, if one router uses multicasting, then all

routers on your network must use multicasting, also.

By default, RIP Direction is set to Both and RIP Version to RIP-1.

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