Linksys E1000 is one of the new models of Linksys wireless routers released by Cisco last month. The Linksys E1000 wireless router has features not present on the WRT series. One of these features is the DHCP reservation, which is used to bind an IP address to a particular network client based on its MAC address.

Few reasons why you want to reserve or bind an IP address to a specific network client is that, when you want to give high priority to this client over the other connected clients on the network, or perhaps you want to limit its access to the world wide web, and for many other reasons.

So, without further a do, here’s how to create a DHCP reservation on Linksys E1000 wireless router.

1. Login to the Linksys E1000 wireless router’s setup page. Once logged in, make sure that you are on the Setup - Basic setup page.

2. Under the Network Setup section, look for the DHCP reservation button, click on it and the DHCP reservation page should pop-up.

3. Now, you have two ways to reserve an IP address to a network client.

The first one is for the clients who are connected to the network already and the second is for the clients who aren’t connected to the network yet. So let’s start with the former first.

A. Under the DHCP reservation - Select Clients from DHCP Tables section, look for the client name you want to reserve an IP address. Now, under the column named Select, click on the check box and then click on the “Add Clients” button to save the changes you’ve just made. The client’s name and other details such as the IP address and its MAC address should then appear on the “Clients Already Reserved” section.

B. To reserve an IP to the client that is not connected to the network yet — just below the “Add Clients” button, you should see the “Manually Adding Client” section. Type-in the Client Name on the text box then enter the IP address you want to assign to the client and then enter the MAC address of the client’s network interface card. By the way, you can get the client’s MAC address through ipconfig/all command on Windows and ifconfig -a on Linux.

4. Once you’re done adding DHCP reservations, click on “Save Settings” button to save the changes you’ve made. Power cycle your Linksys E1000 when necessary.

That’s about it. If you have questions, please feel free to leave them at the comment form below.

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