Chapter 17 WAN

This screen displays when you select Ethernet encapsulation.Figure 96 Network > WAN > Internet Connection: Ethernet Encapsulation

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 58 Network > WAN > Internet Connection: Ethernet Encapsulation

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

ISP Parameters for Internet Access

 

 

Encapsulation

You must choose the Ethernet option when the WAN port is used as a regular

 

Ethernet.

 

 

WAN IP Address Assignment

 

 

Get automatically

Select this option If your ISP did not assign you a fixed IP address. This is the

from ISP (Default)

default selection.

 

 

Bigpond

Select Enable if you subscribe to Internet service from BigPond in Australia.

 

Then configure the fields below with the information provided.

 

 

Server

Type the IP address of the BigPond server.

 

 

User Name

Type the user name given to you by your ISP. You can use alphanumeric and -

 

_@$./ characters, and it can be up to 31 characters long.

 

 

Password

Type the password associated with the user name above. Use up to 64 ASCII

 

characters except [, ] and ?. This field can be blank.

 

 

Retype toType your password again for confirmation.
Confirm

 

 

 

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