Prestige 794M User’s Guide

Table 23 WAN: Edit: Advanced PPP Options (continued)

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Give DNS to

Enable this feature to set the Prestige to provide DNS server information to a

DHCP Server.

DHCP server.

Discover Primary/

Enable this feature to set the Prestige to request NBNS (NetBIOS Name Server)

Secondary NBNS.

server information from the remote PPP peer device.

 

An NBNS server (also known as a WINS server) maps a NetBIOS name to an IP

 

address.

Discover Subnet

Enable this feature to set the Prestige to use the subnet mask obtained after the

Mask

Internet connection is established.

Give Subnet Mask

Enable this feature to set the Prestige to provide the subnet mask information to

to DHCP Server

the DHCP server. The subnet mask is obtained during the connection negotiation.

Apply

Click Apply to save the changes.

 

 

Reset

Click Reset to start configuring this screen again.

 

 

4.2.2 Change Connection Type

Follow the steps below to change your Internet connection type and settings.

1Click Change in the main ISP screen (see Figure 29 on page 49).

2A screen displays as shown. Select the connection type your ISP uses and click Next. Click Quick Start to configure the line settings in the Quick Start screen (refer to Section 2.7.4 on page 33 for more information).

Figure 32 ISP: Change Connection Type

3A configuration screen displays. This screen varies depending on the connection type you select. Refer to Section 4.2 on page 49 for more information.

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