Netopia 4000-Series manual What’s New in Netopia Firmware Version, IP Passthrough support

Introduction 1-1

Chapter 1

Introduction

This Firmware User Guide covers the advanced features of the Netopia 4000-Series Router and IAD families.

Your Netopia equipment offers advanced configuration features in addition to Easy Setup. The advanced feature screens are accessed through the Main Menu of the console configuration screen. This Firmware User Guide documents the advanced features, including advanced testing, security, monitoring, and configuration features. This Firmware User Guide should be used as a companion to the Easy Setup configuration instructions in the Netopia Router Getting Started guide or the applicable User’s Reference Guide. You should read the Getting Started guide before reading this Firmware User Guide.

Note: This Guide also includes descriptions of new features and changes to the functionality of the firmware for the current release, Netopia Firmware Version 5.4. Such descriptions supersede the descriptions of the corresponding features given in the original User’s Reference Guide, if any, accompanying your product.

What’s New in Netopia Firmware Version 5.4

New in Netopia Firmware Version 5.4 are the following features:

■Multiple Data Link Encapsulation support on ATM-based WAN interfaces See “Multiple Data Link Encapsulation Settings” on page 2-25.

■Stateful Inspection Firewall

See “Stateful Inspection firewall” on page 2-37.

■IP Passthrough support

See “IP Passthrough” on page 3-27.

■Universal Plug-and-Play support (UPnP™) See “UPnP Support” on page 10-2.