About This Guide 1
August 2004
Chapter 1 About This Guide
This chapter describes the intended audience, scope, conventions, and formats of this manual.

Audience, Conventions, and Formats

This reference manual assumes that the reader has basic computer and Internet skills. However,
basic computer network, Internet, and firewall technologies tutorial information is provided in the
Appendices and on the Netgear Web site.
This guide uses the following format to highlight special messages:
This guide uses the following typographical conventions:
Note: This format is used to highlight information of importance or special interest.
Table 1-1. Typographical Conventions
italics Emphasis, books, CDs, URL names
bold User input
SMALL CAPS Screen text, file and server names, extensions, commands, IP addresses
Note: Product updates are available on the NETGEAR Web site at
http://kbserver.netgear.com.