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After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ button and the following

message will be displayed on your web browser:

If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please

click ‘Cancel’ button

Please click ‘Continue’ to go back to previous setup menu; to continue on other

setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect

(Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting).

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2-6 Wired LAN Configurations

Before all computers using wired Ethernet connection (i.e. those computers

connected to this router’s LAN port 1 to 4 by Ethernet cable) can communicate with

each other and access internet, they must have a valid IP address. There are two

ways to assign IP addresses to computers: static IP address (set the IP address for

every computer manually), and dynamic IP address (IP address of computers will be

assigned by router automatically). It’s recommended for most of computers to use

dynamic IP address, it will save a lot of time on setting IP addresses for every

computer, especially when there are a lot of computers in your network; for servers

and network devices which will provide services to other computer and users that

come from Internet, static IP address should be used, so that other computes can

locate the server.

Suggestions on IP address numbering plan:

If you have no idea on how to define an IP address plan for your network, here are

some suggestions.

1.

A valid IP address has 4 fields: a.b.c.d, for most of home and company

users, it’s suggested to use 192.168.c.d, where c is an integer between 0

and 254, and d is an integer between 1 and 254. This router is capable to

work with up to 253 clients, so you can set ‘d’ field of IP address of router

as 1 or 254 (or any number between 1 and 254), and pick a number

between 0 and 254 for field ‘c’.

2. In most cases, you should use ‘255.255.255.0’ as subnet mask, which

allows up to 253 clients (this also meets router’s capability of working with

up to 253 clients).

3.

For all servers and network devices which will provide services to other

people (like Internet service, print service, and file service), they should

use static IP address. Give each of them a unique number between 1 and

253, and maintain a list, so everyone can locate those servers easily.

4. For computers which are not dedicated to provide specific service to

others, they should use dynamic IP address.

If you don’t really understand the descriptions listed above, don’t worry! We

will provide recommended setup values below.

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Please follow the instructions mentioned below to set wired LAN parameters:

Click ‘General Setup’ menu on the left of the web management interface, then

click ‘LAN’ menu. There are three setup groups here: ‘LAN IP’, ‘DHCP Server’,

and ‘Static DHCP Lease Table’. Here are setup instructions for each of them:

2-6-1 LAN IP section:

Here is the description of every setup item:

Parameter

Description

IP address

Please input the IP address of this router.

Subnet Mask

Please

input

subnet

mask

for

this

network.

802.1d Spanning Tree

If you wish to activate 802.1d spanning

tree function, select ‘Enabled’ for setup

item ‘802.1d Spanning Tree’, or set it to

‘Disabled’

DHCP Server

If you want to activate DHCP server

function of this router, select ‘Enabled’,

or set it to ‘Disabled’.

Recommended Value if you don’t know what to fill:

IP Address: 192.168.2.1

Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

802.1d Spanning Tree: Disabled

DHCP Server: Enabled

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2-6-2 DHCP Server:

These settings are only available when ‘DHCP Server’ in ‘LAN IP’ section is

‘Enabled’, and here is the description of every setup item:

Parameter

Description

Lease Time

Please choose a lease time (the duration

that every computer can keep a specific

IP address) of every IP address assigned

by this router from the dropdown menu.

Start IP

Please input the start IP address of the IP

range.

End IP

Please input the end IP address of the IP

range.

Domain Name

If you wish, you can also optionally

input the domain name for your network.

This is optional.

Recommended Value if you don’t know what to fill:

Lease Time: Two Weeks (or ‘Forever’, if you have less than 20 computers)

Start IP: 192.168.2.100

End IP: 192.168.2.200

Domain Name: (leave it blank)

NOTE:

1. The number of the last field (mentioned ‘d’ field) of ‘End IP’ must be

greater than ‘Start IP’, and cannot be the same as router’s IP address.

2. The former three fields of IP address of ‘Start IP’, ‘End IP’, and ‘IP

Address of ‘LAN IP’ section (mentioned ‘a’, ‘b’, and ‘c’ field) should be

the same.

3. These settings will affect wireless clients too.

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2-6-3 Static DHCP Lease Table:

This function allows you to assign a static IP address to a specific computer

forever, so you don’t have to set the IP address for a computer, and still enjoy the

benefit of using DHCP server. Maximum 16 static IP addresses can be assigned

here.

(If you set ‘Lease Time’ to ‘forever’ in ‘DHCP Server’ section, you can also

assign an IP address to a specific computer permanently, however, you will not be

able to assign a specific IP address to a computer, since IP addresses will be

assigned in random order by DHCP Server).

Here is the description of every setup item:

Parameter

Description

Enable Static DHCP Leases

Check this box to enable this function,

otherwise uncheck it to disable this

function.

MAC Address

Input the MAC address of the computer

or network device (total 12 characters,

with character from 0 to 9, and from a to

f, like ‘001122aabbcc’)

IP address

Input the IP address you want to assign

to this computer or network device

‘Add’

After you enter MAC address and IP

address pair, click this button to add the

pair to static DHCP leases table.

If you want to remove all characters you just entered, click ‘Clear’.