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Home Networking

8.1 Overview

A Local Area Network (LAN) is a shared communication system to which many networking devices are connected. It is usually located in one immediate area such as a building or floor of a building.

Use the LAN screens to help you configure a LAN DHCP server and manage IP addresses.

LAN

DSL

8.1.1What You Can Do in this Chapter

Use the LAN Setup screen to set the LAN IP address, subnet mask, and DHCP settings of your ZyXEL device (Section 8.2 on page 130).

Use the Static DHCP screen to assign IP addresses on the LAN to specific individual computers based on their MAC Addresses (Section 8.3 on page 132).

Use the UPnP screen to enable UPnP and UPnP NAT traversal on the ZyXEL Device (Section 8.4 on page 133).

 

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