Netopia R910 manual Easy Setup Security Configuration

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Note: If the Netopia R910’s WAN interface is acting as a DHCP client, do not change the default settings for Steps 3, 4, and 5.

4.Select Primary Domain Name Server and enter the IP address your ISP has given you. An alternate or Secondary Domain Name Server field will appear, where you can enter a secondary DNS IP address if your ISP has given you one.

5.If you do not enter a Default IP Gateway value, the router defaults to the remote IP address you entered in Easy Setup. If the Netopia Router does not recognize the destination of any IP traffic, it forwards that traffic to this gateway.

Do not confuse the remote IP address and the Default IP Gateway’s address with the block of local IP addresses you receive from your ISP. You use the local IP addresses for the Netopia R910’s Ethernet port and for IP clients on your local network. The remote IP address and the default gateway’s IP address should point to your ISP’s router.

6.Toggle IP Address Serving to On or Off.

7.Select NEXT SCREEN and press Return. The Easy Setup Security Configuration screen appears.

Easy Setup Security Configuration

The Easy Setup Security Configuration screen lets you password-protect your Netopia R910. Input your Write Access Name and Write Access Password with names or numbers totaling up to eleven digits.

If you password protect the console screens, you will be prompted to enter the name and password you have specified every time you log in to the console screens. Do not forget your name and password. If you do, you will be unable to access any of the configuration screens.

Additional security features are available. See Chapter 13, “Security.”

Easy Setup Security Configuration

It is strongly suggested that you password-protect configuration access to your Netopia. By entering a Name and Password pair here, access via serial, Telnet, SNMP and Web Server will be password-protected.

Be sure to remember what you have typed here, because you will be prompted for it each time you configure this Netopia.

You can remove an existing Name and Password by clearing both fields below.

Write Access Name:

Write Access Password:

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Configure a Configuration Access Name and Password here.

The final step in configuring the Easy Setup console screens is to restart the Netopia R910, so that the configuration settings take effect.