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WAN

17.1 Overview

This chapter discusses the NBG4615’s WAN screens. Use these screens to configure your NBG4615 for Internet access.

A WAN (Wide Area Network) connection is an outside connection to another network or the Internet. It connects your private networks such as a LAN (Local Area Network) and other networks, so that a computer in one location can communicate with computers in other locations.

Figure 94 LAN and WAN

17.2What You Can Do

Use the Internet Connection screen to enter your ISP information and set how the computer acquires its IP, DNS and WAN MAC addresses (Section 17.4 on page 151).

Use the Advanced screen to enable multicasting, configure Windows networking and bridge (Section 17.5 on page 159).

Use IGMP Snooping screen to enable IGMP snooping in the LAN ports (Section 17.6 on page 160).

17.3What You Need To Know

The information in this section can help you configure the screens for your WAN connection, as well as enable/disable some advanced features of your NBG4615.

 

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