To carry out a configuration with WEBconfig, you need to know how to contact the device. Device behavior and accessibility for configuration via a Web browser depend on whether the DHCP server and DNS server are active in the LAN already, and whether these two server processes share the assignment in the LAN of IP addresses to symbolic names. WEBconfig accesses the device either via its IP address, the device name (if configured), or by means of any name if the device has not yet been configured.
The browser uses the IP address or name to make an unencrypted connection request to the LANCOM device. This then automatically switches to an encrypted HTTPS connection. As a result, confidential data such as the login password or the configuration itself are secured with the encrypted connection.
Following power-on, unconfigured devices first check whether a DHCP server is already active in the LAN. Depending on the situation, the device can either enable its own DHCP server or enable DHCP client mode. In the second operating mode, the device can retrieve an IP address for itself from a DHCP server in the LAN.
