NETGEAR UTM50-100NAS Configuring the Internet Connections, Automatically Detecting and Connecting

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4.Configure dynamic DNS on the WAN ports (optional). Configure your fully qualified domain names during this phase (if required). See “Configuring Dynamic DNS” on page 3-19.

5.Configure the WAN options (optional). Optionally, you can enable each WAN port to respond to a ping, and you can change the factory default MTU size and port speed. However, these are advanced features and changing them is not usually required. See “Configuring Advanced WAN Options” on page 3-22.

Each of these tasks is detailed separately in this chapter.

Note: For information about how to configure the WAN meters, see “Enabling the WAN Traffic Meter” on page 11-1.

Configuring the Internet Connections

Note: The initial Internet configuration of the UTM is described in Chapter 2, “Using the Setup Wizard to Provision the UTM in Your Network.” If you used the Setup Wizard to configure your Internet settings, you need this section only if you want to make changes to your Internet connections.

To set up your UTM for secure Internet connections, you configure WAN ports 1 and 2. The Web Configuration Manager offers two connection configuration options:

•Automatic detection and configuration of the network connection.

•Manual configuration of the network connection.

Each option is detailed in the sections following.

Automatically Detecting and Connecting

To automatically configure the WAN ports for connection to the Internet:

1.Select Network Config > WAN Settings from the menu. On dual-WAN port models, the WAN Settings tabs appear, with the WAN1 ISP Settings screen in view (see Figure 3-1 on page 3-3). On the single-WAN port models, the WAN ISP screen displays.

3-2 Manually Configuring Internet and WAN Settings

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