ZyWALL 5/35/70 Series User’s Guide

To change your ZyWALL’s port role settings, click NETWORK, LAN and then the Port Roles tab. The screen appears as shown.

The radio buttons on the left correspond to Ethernet ports on the front panel of the ZyWALL. Ports 1 to 4 are all LAN ports by default. The radio buttons on the right are for the wireless card.

Note: Your changes are also reflected in the DMZ Port Roles and WLAN Port Roles screens.

Figure 40 LAN Port Roles

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 25 LAN Port Roles

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

LAN

Select a port’s LAN radio button to use the port as part of the LAN. The port will

 

use the LAN IP address and MAC address.

DMZ

Select a port’s DMZ radio button to use the port as part of the DMZ. The port will

 

use the DMZ IP address and MAC address.

WLAN

When you have the wireless card set to WLAN, you can select a port’s WLAN

 

radio button to use the port as part of the WLAN.

 

The port will use the ZyWALL’s WLAN IP address and the MAC address of the

 

WLAN card.

 

Note: You must install a wireless card to use the WLAN port role.

 

See Appendix A on page 660 for how to install a WLAN card.

Wireless Card

Select LAN to use the wireless card as part of the LAN.

 

Select DMZ to use the wireless card as part of the DMZ.

 

Select WLAN to use the wireless card as part of the WLAN.

 

The ZyWALL restarts after you change the wireless card setting.

 

Note: If you set the wireless card to be part of the LAN or DMZ, you

 

can still use wireless access, but not the WLAN interface in

 

the firewall. The firewall will treat the wireless card as part of

 

the LAN or DMZ respectively.

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Chapter 5 LAN Screens