Westell Technologies 6000, 6100, 6110 T , U

030-300411 Rev. A 125 July 2004

Westell (Models 6000, 6100, 6110)

User Guide

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The Trace feature allows you to perform an IP trace route to a remote computer either within or beyond the Internet

service provider’s network. Enter either the IP address or the hostname of the remote host computer into the input

box to the right of the Trace button. If you trace by name, DNS will be used to look up the appropriate IP address for

that name.

Trace

Success Trace will display its progress in the text box. Trace will show three round trip

times and the DNS name (if available) of each intermediate router.

Failure Trace will display “*” when it does not receive a response or cannot determine

the DNS name of an intermediate router. This is not necessarily an error, as

some routers are configured to ignore trace route packets or do not have DNS

name.

Turbo TCP is a sophisticated network traffic prioritization and queuing method that dramatically improves

the performance of downstream TCP/FTP/HTTP transfers under heavy upstream bandwidth utilization

conditions.

This feature first assigns a high priority to TCP signaling packets in the upstream direction, then places the

packet in one of several transmit queues based on this priority.

Packets of unspecified priority, like TCP or UDP data, are assigned a low priority and placed in a low priority

queue.

The packets in the high priority queues are then transmitted before packets in the lower priority queues

minimizing any transmit delays.

Minimizing the transmit delay of the TCP messages upstream enables the server to send the TCP data

downstream faster, resulting in a substantial throughput gain.

Update Device (Software Upgrade)

Update Device

(Software Upgrade)

This screen is used to upgrade the Router’s application image. The application

image is specified by entering in the filename or by using the browse button.