Netopia 4000-Series manual Connection Profiles

6-32 Firmware User Guide

Note: The remote DHCP server(s) to which the Netopia Router is relaying DHCP requests must be capable of servicing relayed requests. Not all DHCP servers support this feature. For example, the DHCP server in the Netopia Router does not.

The DHCP server(s) to which the Netopia Router is relaying DHCP requests must be configured with one or more address pools that are within the Netopia Router’s primary Ethernet LAN subnet. (There is no mechanism for DHCP clients to receive an address on a secondary subnet via a relayed DHCP request.)

Connection Profiles

Since you will probably only have a single connection to your ISP over the remote link, you may not need to create multiple connection profiles. Additional profiles may be useful for creating VPNs.

Connection Profiles define the line and networking protocols necessary for the router to make a remote connection. A connection profile is like an address book entry describing how the router is to get to a remote site, or how to recognize and authenticate a remote user connecting to the router. To create a new Connection Profile, you navigate to the WAN Configuration screen from the Main Menu, and select Add Connection Profile.

Main	WAN
Menu	Configuration

The Add Connection Profile screen appears.

Add Connection

Profile

Add Connection	Profile
Profile Name:	Profile 1
Profile Enabled:	Yes
Data Link Encapsulation...	PPP
Data Link Options...
IP Profile Parameters...

COMMIT CANCEL

Configure a new Conn. Profile. Finished? COMMIT or CANCEL to exit.

On a Router you can add up to 15 more connection profiles, for a total of 16, although only one can be used at a time, unless you are using VPNs.