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Activating the LAN DHCP

Activating the LAN DHCP

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Activating the LAN DHCP

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- [Instructor] So far, we've used static IP addresses, but let's say we decide to deploy DHCP on our LAN. We'll select Network, DNS and DHCP. And we'll edit our LAN interface. We've already got the IP address range, so let's enable DHCP. And save. And save changes, apply. That's all we need to do. Let's go to our client01 Windows workstation. We'll click on the network icon. Network & Internet settings. Change adapter options. Properties for ethernet, IPv4. Properties. And we'll obtain an IP address automatically. Okay, we'll close that. And close all the network screens. Let's now open a Command Prompt. And type ipconfig. And we can see we've been allocated the IP address 172.16.1.177. We have a working DHCP server in our LAN. There's much more to net security, of course, but this is a good example of how easy it is to work with this firewall.

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