Netopia 4000-Series manual Creating a New Connection Profile, Commit Cancel

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Creating a New Connection Profile

Connection profiles are useful for configuring the connection and authentication settings for negotiating a PPP connection on a DSL link. If you are using the PPP data link encapsulation method, you can store your authentication information in the connection profile so that your user name and password (or host name and secret) are transmitted when you attempt to connect.

Connection profiles define the 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 connection. 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
Encapsulation Type...	RFC1483
RFC1483 Mode...	Bridged	1483
IP Profile Parameters...
COMMIT	CANCEL

Return accepts * ESC cancels * Left/Right moves insertion point * Del deletes. Configure a new Conn. Profile. Finished? COMMIT or CANCEL to exit.

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

1.Select Profile Name and enter a name for this connection profile. It can be any name you wish. For example: the name of your ISP.

2.Toggle Profile Enabled to Yes or No. The default is Yes. You can toggle it to No, if you want to disable it later.

3.Select Encapsulation Type and press Return. The pop-up menu offers the possible data link encapsulation methods for connection profiles used for a variety of purposes: PPP, RFC1483, ATMP, PPTP, IPsec, or L2TP.