PPP: The current release supports multiple PPP sessions per PVC. The PPP
configuration in the WAN configuration page is for the first PPP session for each
PVC. The predefined PPP Account Name (Account ID) is “Simple PPP Account
0” for PVC0 and predefined PPP Connection Name is “Simple PPP Session 0” for
PVC0. For the other PVC X, the predefined account name and connection name
will be Simple PPP Account X and Simple PPP Session X. X is the PVC number
from 1 to 7.
It can support up to total of 16 PPP sessions, and each PVC can support up to 8
PPP sessions, the multiple PPP sessions may be configured with any
combination over 8 PVCs.
Service Name: The service name of PPP is required by some ISPs. If the ISP does
not provide the Service Name, please leave it blank.
Username: Your user name provided by your ISP.
Password: Your password provided bye your ISP.
Disconnect Timeout: The Disconnect Timeout allows the user to set the specific
period of time to disconnect from the ISP. The default is 0, which means never
disconnect from the ISP.
MRU: Maximum Receive Unit indicates the peer of PPP connection the maximum size
of the PPP information field this device can be received. The default value is 1492
and is used in the beginning of the PPP negotiation. In the normal negotiation, the
peer will accept this MRU and will not send packet with information field larger
than this value.
MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit indicates the network stack of any packet is larger
than this value will be fragmented before the transmission. During the PPP
negotiation, the peer of the PPP connection will indicates its MRU and will be
accepted. The actual MTU of the PPP connection will be set to the smaller one of
MTU and the peer’s MRU. The default is value 1492.
MSS: Maximum Segment Size is the largest size of data that TCP will send in a single
IP packet. When a connection is established between a LAN client and a host in
the WAN side, the LAN client and the WAN host will indicate their MSS during the
TCP connection handshake. The default value is 1432.
Automatic Reconnect: When it is checked, it will maintain the PPP connection all the
time. If the ISP shut down the PPP connection, it will automatically reconnect
PPP session.
DHCP: Use Table-1 to configure a valid setting for each PVC.
Host Name: Required by some ISPs. If the ISP does not provided the Host name,
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