PRELIMINARY

Chapter 6: Configuring Sessions

 

 

Ž Enter the Chap Host name provided by the service provider. The name is used for CHAP authentication of this session. The name must be identical for the user session and for the service provider. See page 73 for the CHAP name you recorded from the service provider.

• Select the Enable checkbox when you want to use NAT protocol (Address Translation) to translate the session IP address to private IP addresses. It is recommended that you always enable NAT.

 

You can choose, however, not to use NAT for address translation. If you do not use

 

NAT, you can assign only one LAN user (one PC) to the session. The IP address for

 

the LAN user PC must be the same IP

 

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Address Assignment given to the session by

 

the service provider (shown in field • on page 36). See page 18 to configure the

 

PC to accept the entry of a manual IP address (select Specify an IP address then

 

manually enter the session IP address).

 

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• Select Dynamic as the Address Assignment if the service provider will automatically

 

assign an IP address for this session during set up. When the address is dynamically

 

assigned, the address field will display the assigned value after the session

 

comes up.

 

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Select Fixed as the Address Assignment if the service provider gave you an IP address

 

 

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for the session. If the address is fixed, type in the fixed IP addresses you recorded

 

on page 74 into the field “If fixed, enter assignedNIP address.”

 

 

This IP address is also referred to as the proxy address for the session.

 

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Click User Assignment to open a dialog in which you can map LAN users to each

 

session. Go to the section “Defining User Assignment Parameters” on page 38 to

 

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configure the user assignments.

 

 

 

 

2 Click Submit to accept the WAN PPP session configuration.

 

3 To configure other sessions:

 

 

 

 

 

a Click EasySession on the Main Menu. then click Edit by the Port 1-3that you want to

 

configure. (Or, if you want to modify an existing session, click Previous or Next to

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locate the session you want to modify).

 

 

b Repeat Step 1 to configure the session.

Deleting a PPP over ATM WAN Session Configuration

1 From the PPP over ATM WAN Configuration page, click Previous or Next to access the session configuration you want to delete.

2 Click Delete to remove a configuration that is displayed on the current Web page.

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