Applications
Configure as an Ethernet IP router
An Ethernet IP router is used to intelligently route Internet Protocol (IP) LAN traffic to remotely connected LANs across the WAN.
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199.169.1.10 | WAN connection | 199.169.2.12 | ||
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199.169.1.0 |
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LAN #1 | LAN #2 | ||
Figure 2 - 4 IP Routed Local Area Networks
IP routers forward IP frames based upon their IP destination address and an internal routing table. The router maintains the internal routing table with the remote network IP addresses and the remote partner IP routers associated with those networks. When an IP frame is received from the local LAN, the destination IP address is examined and looked up in the routing tables. Once the destination IP network is found in the routing tables, the IP router sends the IP frame to the remote partner router that is connected to the appropriate remote IP network. If no explicit route entry is found in the routing tables, the IP frame is sent to the Default Gateway.
To configure the router to be an IP router, the following parameters must be defined in the
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