Orinoco Residential Gateway RG-1000 review
Reviews The RG-1000 has a built-in DHCP server, which can serve both wired and wireless clients, and you can select which of these you want to give addresses to. If you're using the wireless interface to connect local clients and the Ethernet port to...
[February 27, 2002, 23:00]
Dell and Gateway go wireless
News The 1170 Access Point is compatible with all 802.11b wireless cards; supports up to 32 wireless clients; has a built-in NAT firewall; works as a DHCP server; and has Ethernet, PCMCIA, and serial ports.
[August 20, 2002, 19:46]
Getting down to details review
Reviews Make sure all the network settings between the client and access point match, including SSID, DHCP and encryption. To make installation easier, let DHCP automatically assign IP addresses to your networked computers and leave WEP security turned off.
[February 6, 2003, 14:53]
Dumb Wi-Fi cleans up cabling
News The switch is a 1U rackmount box which applies security features such as authentication and encryption, as well as DHCP, quality of service, weighted fair queueing (WFQ) and load balancing, to the wireless traffic.
[September 17, 2002, 10:09]
Six basic tips for securing wireless networks
News Disable DHCP The purpose of properly securing a wireless access point is to close off the network from outsiders who do not have authoristion to use your services. Many wireless access point vendors ship their units with WEP disabled in order to...
[December 9, 2002, 13:46]
Actiontec Wireless-Ready Multimedia Home Gateway review
Reviews Configure all your PCs -- wired or wireless -- to use DHCP to get their IP address and connect them to the Gateway. You use your Web browser to configure the gateway, which is why it's important to use the built-in DHCP server -- you can't change...
[February 27, 2002, 23:00]
Six easy ways to secure your wireless network
News Disable DHCP Not all wireless access points support this feature, but if yours does, it will allow you to specify exactly what machines are allowed to connect to your access point. For each wireless access point you deploy, choose a unique and...
[October 20, 2004, 13:00]
ZoomAir Internet Gateway IG-4165 review
Reviews From the Web interface you can enable the DHCP server, which serves both wired and wireless clients -- you can't choose only one type of client to be allocated addresses. Although only one system can use this facility at a time, you don't have to...
[February 27, 2002, 23:00]
KCORP LifeStyle KLG-575 Wireless Gateway Router review
Reviews The KLG-575 router comes set to 192.168.1.1 as its factory default and with its built-in DHCP server enabled. So all you'll need to do is plug in a client that's set to obtain its IP address information automatically, maybe do a DHCP release...
[April 13, 2004, 15:00]
Buffalo AirStation WBR-G54 review
Reviews If you're using a wireless client to do this, there's a utility that lets you set the unit's IP address, or simply discover it if you're using the DHCP server. In addition to the DHCP server, a network address translator (NAT), firewall and...
[January 24, 2003, 17:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I can see the SSID, but DHCP isn't returning any IP config info" I said. The security was further enhanced by the network giving all the appearances of being a working wireless LAN, right up to the point where you wanted to send or receive a packet.
[June 11, 2004, 19:15]
Optimising and securing your network review
Reviews You can also keep evildoers out by turning off DHCP. You could set the EAP on the access point to authenticate only those clients with a smart card or other high-level security device -- if you use one of the few notebooks that support them.
[February 6, 2003, 14:55]
Fear and laziness stunt Wi-Fi growth
News Think about using a static IP address and turning off DHCP, used for assigning IP addresses. Think about end-to-end security using PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol), IPSec, firewalls (even at the intranet level) and persistence applications...
[March 26, 2003, 16:28]
Excellent kit, awful instructions
Member Review The manual is terse in the extreme and assumes you are going to use the device as a router -- and therefore providing DHCP services to the network. The Web-based interface is good -- but the field descriptions are confusing: I fell into the trap of...
[June 14, 2004, 13:02]
Cisco Aironet 350 Series Access Point review
Reviews If you want to use either of the first two options, there's a utility supplied which allows you to view or set the IP address of the access point, but it will use DHCP if there's a server on the network.
[April 4, 2002, 0:00]
ELSA Vianect WLAN Access Point review
Reviews You get a DHCP server capable of managing up to 253 addresses. The Vianect WLAN Access Point is a nicely styled unit that would blend in with most peripherals, and can be placed on a desk or mounted on the wall.
[February 27, 2002, 23:00]
3Com OfficeConnect Wireless 54Mbps 11G Travel Router review
Reviews A built-in DHCP server is used to assign and manage client IP addresses here, with a NAT (Network Address Translation) router, complete with stateful inspection firewall, to share a single Internet account.
[December 14, 2004, 8:55]
Evesham NAS-2108R review
Reviews From a software perspective, you get IP services such as DHCP, NFS and FTP, a print server, and the ability to connect to a wide range of clients, since the NAS-2108R speaks Appletalk and NetWare IPX networking protocols, all of which are...
[May 7, 2003, 9:33]
