NETGEAR Business Edition manual Global Network Settings, Hostname

ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide

Performance Settings . In this section, you can the Enable jumbo frames option allows you to optimize the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition for large data transfers such as multiple streams of video playback.

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Note: Use this option only if your NIC and your gigabit switch support jumbo frames. The ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition supports a 9000 byte frame size. For optimal

performance, a switch capable of this frame size or larger should be used.

Global Network Settings

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Hostname

The Hostname you specify is used to advertise the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition on your network. You can use the hostname to address the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition in place of the IP address when accessing the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition from Windows, or over OS X using SMB. This is also the name that appears in the RAIDar scan list.

The default hostname is nas- followed by the last three bytes of your primary MAC address.

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