Chapter 13 WAN

13.5 Advanced WAN Screen

Use this screen to enable Multicast and enable Auto-bridge.Note: The categories shown in this screen are independent of each other.

To change your Router’s advanced WAN settings, click Network > WAN > Advanced. The screen appears as shown.

Figure 90 Network > WAN > Advanced

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 57 Network > WAN > Advanced

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Multicast Setup

 

 

 

Multicast

Select IGMPv1/v2 to enable multicasting. This applies to traffic routed from the WAN to

 

the LAN.

 

Select None to disable this feature. This may cause incoming traffic to be dropped or sent

 

to all connected network devices.

 

 

Auto-Subnet Setup

 

 

None

Select this option to have the Router do nothing when it gets a WAN IP address in the range

 

of 192.168.x.y (where x and y are from zero to nine) or in the same subnet as the LAN IP

 

address.

 

 

Enable Auto-

Select this option to have the Router switch to bridge mode automatically when the Router

bridge mode

gets a WAN IP address in the range of 192.168.x.y (where x and y are from zero to nine) no

 

matter what the LAN IP address is.

 

 

Enable Auto-IP-

Select this option to have the Router change its LAN IP address to 10.0.0.1 or 192.168.1.1

Change mode

accordingly when the Router gets a dynamic WAN IP address in the same subnet as the LAN

 

IP address 192.168.1.1 or 10.0.0.1.

 

The NAT, DHCP server and firewall functions on the Router are still available in thismode.

 

 

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes back to the Router.

 

 

Reset

Click Reset to begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

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