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Chapter 4 Customizing Your Network Settings
Using the LAN IP Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Configuring a Device Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Configuring LAN TCP/IP Setup Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Using the Router as a DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Using Address Reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using a Dynamic DNS Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Configuring the WAN Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Disabling Port Scan and DoS Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Setting Up a Default DMZ Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Responding to a Ping on the Internet (WAN) Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Setting the MTU Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Configuring NAT Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Configuring Static Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Chapter 5 Fine-Tuning Your Network
Allowing Inbound Connections to Your Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 How Your Computer Accesses a Remote Computer through Your Router58 How Port Triggering Changes the Communication Process . . . . . . . . . 59 How Port Forwarding Changes the Communication Process . . . . . . . . 60 How Port Forwarding Differs from Port Triggering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Configuring Port Forwarding to Local Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Adding a Custom Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Editing or Deleting a Port Forwarding Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Configuring Port Triggering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Using Universal Plug and Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Optimizing Wireless Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Using WMM for Wireless Multimedia Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Quality of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Using WMM QoS for Wireless Multimedia Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Configuring QoS for Internet Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Changing the MTU Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Overview of Home and Small Office Networking Technologies . . . . . . . . . 74 Assessing Your Speed Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Chapter 6 Using Network Monitoring Tools
Viewing Wireless Router Status Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Viewing a List of Attached Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Managing the Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Backing Up and Restoring the Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Erasing the Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Updating the Router Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Checking for New Firmware in the Router Upgrade Screen . . . . . . . . . 84
Updating Manually to New Router Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Enabling Remote Management Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Traffic Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
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