Adding an IP Address Pool to the DHCP Configuration

With this menu item, create a new IP address space. An address pool defines an IP address space that is treated differently from the other IP addresses and whose addresses are assigned dynamically by the DHCP server.

When the DHCP pool is created, the IP addresses in the IP pool are registered with the name server and host names are generated for these IP addresses. Start by selecting the DNS domain to which the new host names should be added.

Then specify a designation for this address pool. Select any name of your liking and enter it in the field Notation.

The character string entered for the host names in the field Prefix for Host Names is used for generating the host names:

The address space ranges from 192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1.29, the prefix is dhcpPC-, and the selected DNS domain is company.com. In this example, the following host names and IP addresses are generated and registered with the name server:
dhcpPC-01.company.com -> 192.168.1.10
dhcpPC-02.company.com -> 192.168.1.11
dhcpPC-03.company.com -> 192.168.1.12
...
...
...
dhcpPC-18.company.com -> 192.168.1.27
dhcpPC-19.company.com -> 192.168.1.28
dhcpPC-20.company.com -> 192.168.1.29
Enter the desired address space in the IP Address Range fields.

Important

The host names generated in this way can only be removed from the name server by deleting the DHCP IP address pool. They are not listed under DNS Configuration->Delete Host, as an unintentional deletion of this entry would impair the functionality of the DHCP server. The DHCP server reserves part of the host's main memory for every IP address in a pool. If the address space is too large, a major portion of the computer's resources may be occupied needlessly; in some cases, it may be impossible to start the DHCP server at all due to a lack of memory.

Click Insert to enter the new IP address pool in the DHCP configuration.

Subsequently, define DHCP options and statements for the newly created pool by clicking this pool under DHCP Configuration in the browser.