SMC Networks SMC7204BRA Getting Started with the Configuration Manager, Configuring the LAN Ports

Table of Contents

Getting Started with the Configuration Manager 23

Accessing the Configuration Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Functional Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Commonly used buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

The Home Page and System View Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Modifying Basic System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Committing Changes and Rebooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Committing your changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Rebooting the device using Configuration Manager . . . 31

Configuring the LAN Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Connecting via Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Configuring the LAN Port IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Viewing System IP Addresses

and IP Performance Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Viewing the ADSL Barricade's IP Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Viewing IP Performance Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Configuring Dynamic Host Configuration

Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Overview of DHCP	. . . 43
What is DHCP?	. . . 43
Why use DHCP?	. . . 44
ADSL Barricade DHCP modes	. . . 44
Configuring DHCP Server	. . . 45
Guidelines for creating DHCP server address pools	. . . 45
Adding DHCP Server Address Pools	. . . 47
Viewing, modifying, and deleting address pools . . .	. . . 50
Excluding IP addresses from a pool	. . . 51
Viewing current DHCP address assignments	. . . 51
Configuring DHCP Relay	. . . 52
Setting the DHCP Mode	. . . 54

Configuring Network Address Translation . . . . .57

Overview of NAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

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