ZyAIR Wireless Gateway Series User’s Guide

3.5.4 WAN MAC Address

Every Ethernet device has a unique MAC (Media Access Control) address. The MAC address is assigned at the factory and consists of six pairs of hexadecimal characters, for example, 00:A0:C5:00:00:02.

You can configure the WAN port's MAC address by either using the factory default or cloning the MAC address from a workstation on your LAN. Once it is successfully configured, the address will be copied to the "rom" file (ZyNOS configuration file). It will not change unless you change the setting or upload a different "rom" file.

ZyXEL recommends you clone the MAC address from a workstation on your LANeven if your ISP does not require MAC address authentication.

Your ZyAIR WAN port is always set at half-duplex mode as most cable/DSL modems only support half- duplex mode. Make sure your modem is in half-duplex mode. Your ZyAIR supports full duplex mode on the LAN side.

Table 3-7 Example of Network Properties for LAN Servers with Fixed IP Addresses

Choose an IP address

192.168.1.2-192.168.1.32; 192.168.1.65-192.168.1.254.

 

 

Subnet mask

255.255.255.0

 

 

Gateway (or default route)

192.168.1.1(ZyAIR LAN IP)

 

 

Wizard Setup

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