Prestige 642 PPPoE Modem

Table 3-4 Advanced Setup — System Date & Time Screen Description

FIELD LABEL

FIELD DESCRIPTION

Date

 

Current Date

This read-only field displays the current date.

New Date

Enter the new date in year, month and day and format.

 

 

Time

 

Current Time

This read-only field displays the current time.

New Time

Enter the new time in hour, minute and second format.

 

 

When you have finished, click Apply to save these settings back to the Prestige or Reset to reset the fields in this screen.

3.4.3 Advanced Setup — LAN Screen

Click the Advanced Setup link and then click the LAN link to display the screen shown next.

DHCP

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) allows individual clients (computers) to obtain the TCP/IP configuration at start-up from a centralized DHCP server. The Prestige has built-in DHCP server capability, enabled by default, which means it can assign IP addresses, an IP default gateway and DNS servers to Windows 98, Windows NT and other systems that support the DHCP client. The Prestige can also act as a surrogate DHCP server where it relays IP address assignments from the actual DHCP server to clients.

IP Pool Setup

The Prestige is pre-configured with a pool of 32 IP addresses starting from 192.168.1.33 to 192.168.1.64 for the client computers. This leaves 31 IP addresses, 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.32 (excluding the Prestige itself which has a default IP of 192.168.1.1), for other server computers, e.g., server for mail, FTP, telnet, web, etc., that you may have.

DNS

DNS Server Address DNS (Domain Name System) is for mapping a domain name to its corresponding IP address and vice versa, e.g., the IP address of www.zyxel.com is 204.217.0.2. The DNS server is extremely important because without it, you must know the IP address of a computer before you can access it. The DNS server addresses that you enter in the DHCP setup are passed to the client computers along with the assigned IP address and subnet mask. There are two ways that an ISP disseminates the DNS server addresses. The first is for an ISP to tell a customer the DNS server addresses, usually in the form of an information sheet, when

Web Configurator

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