Utilities .3

Chapter 3 - Software Configuration

IP Config (Cont.)

Click an item on the menu to reveal a submenu. Follow the instructions to set up the ASUS Wireless Router. Tips are displayed when you move your cursor over an item.

Static Route

A route is a possible path from a given host to another host or destination. If you append one or more routers behind the ASUS Wireless Router to share the same connection to Internet, you need to insert predefined rules of route, called static route, into the ASUS Wireless Router. Then the ASUS Wireless Router could know which

router the packets from Internet with different destination IP address can deliver to.

Apply to routing table? – Selecting “Yes” applies all those rules in Static Route List into routing table.

Static Route List

Network/Host IP –It stands for the destination IP address of network or host. So it could be an IP address, such as 192.168.1.1 or a range of IP address, such as 192.168.0.0 or 192.0.0.0. If a packet with destination IP address that match to this field or within the range of this field, it will route to the device set in Gateway field.

Netmask – It stands for the netmask of an added network route.

Gateway - This field stands for the IP address of gateway where packets are routed. The specified gateway must be reachable first. It means you have to set up a static route to the gateway beforehand.

Metric - Metric is a value of distance for the network and used to decide the priority of route rules.

Interface - This field decide which network interface this routing rule is applied to.

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