NETGEAR FVS338 manual Monitoring Attached Devices

FVS338 ProSafe VPN Firewall 50 Reference Manual

Monitoring Attached Devices

The Groups and Hosts menu contains a table of all IP devices that the VPN firewall has discovered on the local network. Select Network Configuration from the main menu and LAN Groups from the submenu. The Groups and Hosts screen will display.

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The network database is an automatically-maintained list of all known PCs and network devices. PCs and devices become known by the following methods:

•DHCP Client Requests – By default, the DHCP server in this Router is enabled, and will accept and respond to DHCP client requests from PCs and other network devices. These requests also generate an entry in the network database. Because of this, leaving the DHCP Server feature enabled (on the LAN Setup screen) is strongly recommended.

•Scanning the Network – The local network is scanned using standard methods such as ARP. This will detect active devices which are not DHCP clients. However, sometimes the name of the PC or device cannot be accurately determined and will be shown as Unknown.

The Known PCs and Devices table lists all current entries in the network database. For each PC or device, the following data is displayed.

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