Netopia PN Series manual Static routes, Only

IP Setup 4-11

■ Select DNS Server and enter the IP address for a domain name server. The domain name server matches the alphabetic addresses favored by people (for example, www.netopia.com) to the IP addresses actually used by IP routers (for example, 163.7.8.202).

■ If a secondary DNS server is available, select Secondary DNS

	Server and enter its IP address. The secondary DNS server is
	used by the Netopia Router when the primary DNS server is
	inaccessible. Entering a secondary DNS is useful but it is not
	necessary.
	■ Select Domain Name and enter your network’s domain name
	(for example, farallon.com). Entering a Domain Name is
	strongly recommended.
Non-Small Office models	■ If there are IP routers on your Ethernet network that the Netopia
only	Router needs to recognize, select Receive RIP and toggle it to
	On. With Receive RIP on, the Netopia Router’s Ethernet port will
	accept routing information provided by Routing Information
	Protocol (RIP) packets. RIP is used on all Netopia Router
	models except the SO-Smart models.
Non-Small Office models	■ If you want the Netopia Router to advertise its routing table to
only	other routers via RIP, select Transmit RIP and toggle it to On.
	With Transmit RIP on, the Netopia Router will generate RIP
	packets to those other routers.
Non-Small Office models	■ Select Static Routes to manually configure IP routes. See the
only	following section.

Static routes

Static routes are IP routes that are maintained manually. Each static route acts as a pointer that tells the Netopia Router how to reach a particular network. However, static routes are used only if they appear in the IP routing table, which contains all of the routes used by the Netopia Router (see “IP routing table” on page 9-13).