Chapter 2 NAS Starter Utility

Click Configure network setting in the main utility screen to display the following screen.

Figure 34 NAS Starter Utility > Configure network setting

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 5 NAS Starter Utility > Config

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

NAS Name

Specify a name to uniquely identify the NSA on your network. You can

 

enter up to 15 alphanumeric characters with minus signs allowed but

 

not as the last character. The name must begin with an alphabetic

 

character (a-z) and is case sensitive.

 

 

Get IP

Select this if the NSA is automatically assigned an IP address from the

automatically

ISP or a DHCP server in your network.

from DHCP

 

server

 

 

 

Assign IP

Select this if you want to assign the NSA a fixed IP address, subnet

Manually

mask and default gateway.

 

Note: Do not configure an IP address that is already in use in your

 

network. This results to a network IP address conflict and

 

makes the NSA inaccessible.

 

 

Use DNS server

Domain Name System (DNS) is for mapping a domain name to its

from DHCP

corresponding IP address and vice versa. Select this if the NSA is

server

automatically given DNS information from the ISP or a DHCP server in

 

your network.

 

 

Assign DNS

If you were given specific IP address(es) of the DNS server(s), select

server manually

this and enter the primary and secondary DNS in the corresponding

 

fields.

 

 

PPPoE

Click this if your Internet connection requires you to enter a user name

 

and password to connect to the Internet.

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