RangeMax
Table 1-1. Basic Settings screen fields
Settings |
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Domain Name Server (DNS) Address | The DNS server is used to look up site addresses based on | |
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| their names. |
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| • Get Automatically from ISP. Your ISP uses DHCP to |
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| assign your DNS servers. Your ISP automatically assigns |
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| this address. |
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| • Use These DNS Servers. If you know that your ISP does |
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| not automatically transmit DNS addresses to the modem |
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| router during login, select this option, and enter the IP |
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| address of your ISP’s primary DNS server. If a secondary |
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| DNS server address is available, enter it also. |
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NAT (Net Address Translation) | NAT automatically assigns private IP addresses (10.1.1.x) to | |
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| • Enable. Usually NAT is enabled. |
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| • Disable. This disables NAT, but leaves the firewall active. |
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| Disable NAT only if you are sure that you do not require it. |
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| When NAT is disabled, only standard routing is performed |
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| by this router. Classical routing lets you directly manage the |
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| IP addresses that the modem router uses. Classical routing |
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| should be selected only by experienced users* |
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| • Disable firewall. This disables the firewall in addition to |
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| disabling NAT. With the firewall disabled, the protections |
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| usually provided to your network are disabled. |
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These fields | Router MAC Address | The Ethernet MAC address that will be used by the modem |
appear only if no |
| router on the Internet port. Some ISPs register the Ethernet |
login is required. |
| MAC address of the network interface card in your computer |
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| when your account is first opened. They will then accept traffic |
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| only from the MAC address of that computer. This feature |
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| allows your modem router to masquerade as that computer by |
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| “cloning” its MAC address. |
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| • Use Default Address. Use the default MAC address. |
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| • Use Computer MAC Address. The modem router will |
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| capture and use the MAC address of the computer that you |
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| are now using. You must be using the one computer that is |
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| allowed by the ISP. |
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| • Use This MAC Address. Enter the MAC address that you |
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| want to use. |
*. Disabling NAT reboots the modem router and resets its configuration settings to the factory defaults. Disable NAT only if you plan to install the modem router in a setting where you will be manually administering the IP address space on the LAN side of the router.
Connecting Your Router to the Internet |
