ZyXEL Communications P-1100 manual General Setup Menu Fields, Field Description Example

Prestige 1100 Internet Access Router

Table 2-3 General Setup Menu Fields

Field	Description	Example
System Name	Choose a descriptive name for identification purposes.	P1100
	This name can be up to 8 alphanumeric characters long.
	Spaces are not allowed, but dashes “-” and underscores
	"_" are accepted. This name can be retrieved remotely
	via SNMP and will be displayed at the prompt in the
	Command Mode.
Location (optional)	Enter the geographic location (up to 31 characters) of	location
	your Prestige 1100.
Contact Person's	Enter the name (up to 8 characters) of the person in	name
Name (optional)	charge of this Prestige 1100.
Protocols:	Turn on or off the individual protocols for your particular	Press space-
	application.	bar to toggle
Route IP	Selecting [Yes] to enable IP routing. You must enable IP	[Yes/No]
	routing for Internet access.
Route IPX	Selecting [Yes] to enable IPX routing.	[Yes/No]
Bridge	Selecting [Yes] to enable bridging. Packets that the	[Yes/No]
	Prestige 1100 does not route are transparently bridged.

2.7.1 Note on Bridging

When bridging is enabled, your Prestige forwards any packet that it does not route. Without bridging, the packets that the Prestige does not route are simply discarded. Compared to routing, bridging generates far more traffic for the same network layer protocol, and uses more CPU cycles and memory.

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