Chapter 7 WAN

 

 

 

 

Table 29 Network > WAN > Internet Connection: PPPoE Encapsulation (continued)

 

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

MTU Size

Enter the MTU or the largest packet size per frame that your NBG-418N v2 can receive

 

 

and process.

 

 

 

 

Connection Type

Select Continuous if you do not want the connection to time out.

 

 

Select Connection on Demand if you want to connect for a certain amount of time

 

 

before the router automatically disconnects from the PPPoE server. If you select this you

 

 

will need to enter the number of minutes in the Idle timeout field.

 

 

Select Manual if want to make the connection manually.

 

 

 

 

Connect/

Click Connect button to establish the connection with above settings or Click Disconnect

 

Disconnect

to stop the connection.

 

 

 

 

DNS Servers

 

 

 

 

 

Attain DNS

Click Attain DNS Automatically radio button if your ISP dynamically assigns DNS server

 

Automatically/

information (and the NBG-418N v2’s WAN IP address). Or click Set DNS Manually if you

 

Set DNS

have if you have the IP address of a DNS server.

 

Manually

 

 

 

 

 

First DNS Server

Enter the first and second DNS server's IP address in the fields.

 

Second DNS

 

 

Server

 

 

 

 

 

WAN MAC

The MAC address section allows users to configure the WAN port's MAC address by using

 

Address

the NBG-418N v2’s MAC address, copying the MAC address from a computer on your LAN

 

 

or manually entering a MAC address.

 

 

 

 

Factory default

Select Factory default to use the factory assigned default MAC Address.

 

 

 

 

Clone the

Select this option to clone the MAC address of the computer (displaying in the screen)

 

computer's MAC

from which you are configuring the NBG-418N v2. Once it is successfully configured, the

 

address - MAC

address will be copied to the rom file. It will not change unless you change the setting or

 

Address

upload a different ROM file.

 

 

 

 

Set WAN MAC

Select this option and enter the MAC address you want to use.

 

Address

 

 

 

 

 

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes back to the NBG-418N v2.

 

 

 

 

Reset

Click Reset to begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

 

7.4 Advanced Screen

Use this screen to set up multicast configurations. Click Network > WAN > Advanced.

Figure 56 Network > WAN > Advanced

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