Instant Broadband® Series
Appendix D: SNMP Functions
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a
SNMP functions, such as statistics, configuration, and device information, are not available without
EtherFast® Cable/DSL Firewall Router with
Appendix E: How to Ping Your ISP’s E-mail & Web Addresses
Virtually all Internet addresses are configured with words or characters (e.g., www.linksys.com, www.yahoo.com, etc.) In actuality, however, these Internet addresses are assigned to IP addresses, which are the true addresses on the Internet. For example, www.linksys.com is actually 216.23.162.142. Type it into your web browser and you will wind up at the Linksys home page every time. There are servers that translate the URL to an IP address; this is called Domain Name System (DNS).
IP and web addresses, however, can sometimes be long and hard to remember. Because of this, certain ISPs will shorten their server addresses to single words or codes on their users’ web browser or
The solution is to determine the true web addresses behind your ISPs code words. You can determine the IP and web addresses of your ISP’s servers by “pinging” them.
Important: If you don’t have your ISP’s web and
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