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ADVANCED > ROUTING

Routing

allows you to determine which physical interface address to use for

outgoing IP data grams. If you have more than one router and subnet, you will need

to enable the routing table to allow packets to find the proper routing path and allow

different subnets to communicate with each other.

To enable the

Routing Table,

click the check box next to

Enable

in the related field.

You have to define:

Destination

Subnet Mask

Gateway

Hop: router’s position compared to this Device; if it is under this device, then input 2.

For example, if the host wanted to send an IP data gram to 192.168.3.88

(destination), it would use the above table to determine that it had to go via

192.168.1.33 (a gateway),

Each rule can be enabled or disabled individually.

After the

routing table

setting is configured, click

Apply

.

If you

do not

wish to set the static IP address on your PC, you will need to

configure your PC to request an IP address from the gateway.

Click the Start button, select Settings, and select Control Panel.

Double-click the Network icon.

In the configuration tab, select the TCP/IP protocol line that has been

associated with your network card/adapter. If there is no TCP/IP line listed,

you will need to install TCP/IP now.

Click the

Properties

button.

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Choose the

IP ADDRESS

tab. Select

Obtain an IP automatically

.

After clicking

OK

, windows might ask you to restart the PC. Click

Yes

.

CONFIRM YOUR PC’S IP CONFIGURATION

There are two tools which are great for finding out a computer’s IP

configuration: MAC address and default gateway.

WINIPCFG (for Windows 95/98)

Inside the windows 95/98 Start button, select Run and type winipcfg. In the

example below this computer has an IP address of 192.168.0.100 and the

default gateway is 192.168.0.1. The default gateway should be the network

device IP address. The MAC address in windows 95/98 is called the Adapter

Address.

NOTE:

You can also type

winipcfg

in the DOS command prompt.

IPCONFIG (for Windows 2000/NT/XP)

At the command prompt type

IPCONFIG

and press

Enter

. Your PC IP

information will be displayed as shown below.

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Assigning a Static IP Address

Note:

Residential Gateways/Broadband Routers will automatically assign IP

Addresses to the computers on the network, using DHCP (Dynamic Host

Configuration Protocol) technology. If you are using a DHCP-capable

Gateway/Router you will not need to assign Static IP Addresses.

If you are not using a DHCP capable Gateway/Router, or you need to assign

a Static IP Address, please follow these instructions:

Go to

START

Double-click on

Control Panel

Double-click on

Network

Connections