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ApplianceWare v.5.3 Complete FAQ – February 24, 2004 – Page 29 of 30
Optifacio Software Services, Inc.
1.5.3 ApplianceWare Network Settings
1.5.3.1 What is the meaning of the Large Network Settings option?
This option allows you to set up an Appliance to periodically announce itself to arbitrary IP
addresses with an arbitrary workgroup name.
This is useful if you want your Appliance to appear in a remote workgroup for which the
normal browse propagation rules don't work. The remote workgroup can be anywhere that you can
send IP packets to.
The IP addresses you choose would normally be the broadcast addresses of the remote
networks, but can also be the IP addresses of known browse masters if your network config is that
stable.
For example:
IP : 192.168.2.255 Workgroup : SERVERS
IP : 192.168.4.255 Workgroup : STAFF
As a default, the current workgroup name is used.
Please note that you are not able to configure large network if an Appliance acts as a DHCP
client. Please turn DHCP client option off before proceeding. Large Network settings can only be
used when the appliance has a static IP address. If the appliance obtains its address from a DHCP
server, then the Large Network settings are automatically configured with no entries.
1.5.3.2 Are there any peculiarities when an Appliance is configured to act as DHCP
client?
In general, when you have NICs that are configured to obtain IP addresses and other
information from a DHCP server, an Appliance acts in the following way.
All the information obtained from DHCP server will be set up. With multiple NICs that are set
up to receive information from a DHCP server, each NIC will get individual IP, subnet mask
settings, and gateway address. Other system-wide parameters, such as an Appliance name, will be
set as follows. The system determines which NIC is default gateway, and obtains system-wide
settings for this card. Thus, they're becoming default ones for the whole Appliance. Please note that,