VSG-1200 User’s Guide

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 3 System Setting: System

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

System/ Host

Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 characters) for identification purposes.

Name

 

Domain Name

Enter the domain name (if you know it) here. If you leave this field blank, the VSG

 

may obtain a domain name from a DHCP server.

 

The domain name entered by you is given priority over the DHCP server assigned

 

domain name.

Date/Time

To manually set the system date and time, select the appropriate choices from the

 

Date and Time drop-down list boxes.

 

Click Get from my Computer to set the time and date on the VSG to be the same

 

as the computer that you use to configure the VSG.

 

If you select Use NTP (Network Time Protocol) Time Server option and set the

 

necessary fields, you can click Get from NTP Server to update the time and date

 

on the VSG from the NTP time server.

Use NTP (Network

Select this option to have the VSG get the date and time information from a time

Time Protocol)

server.

Time Server

 

Server IP/ Domain

Enter the IP address or the domain name of the time server. Check with your ISP/

Name

network administrator if you are unsure of this information.

Time Zone

Select your time zone from the drop-down list box. This will set the time difference

 

between your time zone and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Update Time

Enter the number of hours between updates.

 

 

Daylight Savings

Select this option if you use daylight savings time.

 

Daylight saving is a period from late spring to early fall when many countries set

 

their clocks ahead of normal local time by one hour to give more daytime light in

 

the evening.

Start Date

Specify the month and day that your daylight-savings time starts on if you select

 

Daylight Savings.

End Date

Specify the month and day that your daylight-savings time ends on if you select

 

Daylight Savings.

NAT (Network

NAT (RFC 1631) is the translation of the IP address of a host in a packet, for

Address

example, the source address of an outgoing packet, used within one network to a

Translation)

different IP address known within another network.

 

Select Enable to activate Network Address Translation (NAT). Enable this feature

 

to set your VSG to map multiple local IP addresses to one global IP address. This

 

is the default selection.

 

Select Disable to deactivate NAT.

 

 

IP Plug and Play

Select this option to allow plug-and-play Internet access which means that

(iPnP Technology)

subscribers do not have to change their network settings. This feature is activated

 

by default.

DNS Fake IP

Select this option to assign private IP address to a network device (such as the e-

Reply

mail server). NAT will translate the private IP address to the public IP address on

 

the WAN.

User Session Limit

You can set the VSG to limit the number of sessions each user can use at a time.

 

Select Unlimited to allow each user to use any number of sessions at a time.

 

Select the second option and enter the number of sessions (between 1 and 1024)

 

each user is allowed to use at a time.

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