NETGEAR WNDR3400 user manual Get Automatically from ISP. Your ISP uses Dhcp to

N600 Wireless Dual Band Router WNDR3400 User Manual

Table 1-1. Basic Settings screen fields (continued)

Settings		Description
Domain Name Server (DNS) Address		The DNS server is used to look up site addresses based on
		their names.
		• Get Automatically from ISP. Your ISP uses DHCP to
		assign your DNS servers. Your ISP automatically assigns
		this address.
		• Use These DNS Servers. If you know that your ISP does
		not automatically transmit DNS addresses to the wireless
		router during login, select this option, and enter the IP
		address of your ISP’s primary DNS server. If a secondary
		DNS server address is available, enter it also.
This field	Router MAC Address	The Ethernet MAC address that will be used by the wireless
appears only if		router on the Internet port. Some ISPs register the Ethernet
no login is		MAC address of the network interface card in your computer
required.		when your account is first opened. They will then accept traffic
		only from the MAC address of that computer. This feature
		allows your wireless router to masquerade as that computer
		by “cloning” its MAC address.
		• Use Default Address. Use the default MAC address of the
		router (normally the LAN MAC address).
		• Use Computer MAC Address. The wireless router will
		capture and use the MAC address of the computer that you
		are now using. You must be using the one computer that is
		allowed by the ISP.
		• Use This MAC Address. Enter the MAC address that you
		want to use.

Configuring Your Internet Connection 1-9

v1.0, August 2010