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Date Posted: August 20, 2001

Now we need to determine how long we want our DHCP leases to last. The default value is 604800 seconds, or 7 days. This should be fine for our purposes.

We have a ability to create reservations for certain computers so they will always have the same IP address. If you are interested in doing this please read up on it. It is fairly easy to do but for the sake of keeping this article short we won't be covering it. Press 'n' and hit 'Enter'.

Freesco will allow you to run a web page from your router. We will also not delve into this area but remember it is there if you want to come back to it later. Hit 'n' and press 'Enter'.

Next we want to enable the router control and time server but make it available only on the LAN. Select 's' and hit 'Enter'.

The control HTTP server now needs to know what port to run on. The default is '81' but I have chosen something a little farther away and hopefully more hidden (5000). You may choose either.

Select the default for the time server (www.clock.org) and press 'Enter'.

Time offset is how far away you are from Greenwich Mean Time. I am in the eastern time zone and we are behind GMT by 5 hours. My entry would be '-0500'. You must calculate your offset and hit 'Enter'.

Your router is capable of acting as a print server as well. You can come back and change it later but for now we will disable this feature. Press 'n' and hit 'Enter'.

A telnet server is a nice interactive way to enter and control your router. We will want this available only to our LAN so hit 's' and press 'Enter'.

Your router can save energy while it is idling and shut off your monitor and spin down your hard drive (assuming you are running off one). You can come back and set this up later. Type '0,0' and hit 'Enter'.

If you will be running from a hard drive you will want to come back later and set a swap file size. For now hit '0' and type 'Enter'.

The extra modules are not things we need to run at this point so hit 'n' and press 'Enter'.

For log sizes we can accept the defaults and just hit 'Enter'.

The host gateway is your default gateway. If you are using DHCP you will not need to provide this information.

You will now need to enter your primary DNS numbers. These numbers are provided by your ISP.

You can also provide a secondary DNS number if you have one.

You can add in a web proxy if your ISP provides one and if you want to use it. Otherwise type in '-' and hit 'Enter'.

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