Best Data Products DSL502E

Best Data DSL542 ADSL Ethernet Router User’s Guide

10 Configuring PPP Interfaces

When powered on, the Best Data DSL542 initiates a connection through your DSL line t o your

ISP.

The point-to-point (PPP) protocol is commonly used between ISPs and their customers to i dentify

and control various communication properties, including:

f Identifying the type of service the ISP provides to a given customer

f Identifying the customer to the ISP through a username and password login

f Enabling the ISP to assign Internet information to the customer’s computers

Your ISP may or may not use the PPP protocol. Contact your ISP to determine if you will need to

change the default settings in order to connect to their server.

To view your current PPP setup, log into Configuration Manager, click the WAN tab, and then click

PPP in the task bar. The PPP Configuration page displays, as shown in Figure 37.

Figure 36. PPP Configuration Page

PPP is configured as a group of software settings associated with the ADSL port. Although the

device has only one physical ADSL port, the Best Data DSL542 can be defined with more than

one group of PPP settings. Each group of settings is called a PPP interface and is given a name,

such as ppp-0, ppp-1, etc.

You can configure the following settings on the PPP Configuration page:

f Inactivity TimeOut (mins): The time in minutes that must elapse before a PPP

connection times-out due to inactivity.

f Ignore WAN to LAN traffic: When enabled, data traffic traveling in the incoming

direction—from the WAN port to the LAN port—will not count as activity on the WAN port;

i.e., it will not prevent the connection from being terminated if inactive for the specified

time.