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Click
Next
to see the following page.
WAN IP
Type the WAN IP address that obtained from ISP.
Subnet Mask
Type the subnet mask obtained from ISP.
Gateway
Type the gateway address obtained from ISP.
Primary DNS
Type the IP address as the primary DNS obtained from ISP.
Second DNS
Type the IP address as the secondary DNS.
After finishing the settings in the above page, click
Next
to see the following page.
Click
Finish
to save current settings and restart the router.
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2.2.6 DHCP
Click
DHCP
as the protocol.
Click
Next
to see the following page.
Host Name
Specify the host name for the router.
MAC
This is an optional setting. The router will detect the MAC
address automatically. If not, click
Clone MAC Address
to
obtain it.
Type in all the information that your ISP provides for this protocol. After finishing the settings
in this page, click
Next
to see the following page.
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Click
Finish
to save current settings and restart the router.
2.3 LAN TCP/IP and DHCP Server
Basics of LAN
The most generic function of Vigor router is NAT. It creates a private subnet of your own. As
mentioned previously, the router will talk to other public hosts on the Internet by using public
IP address and talking to local hosts by using its private IP address. What NAT does is to
translate the packets from public IP address to private IP address to forward the right packets
to the right host and vice versa. Besides, Vigor router has a built-in DHCP server that assigns
private IP address to each local host. See the following diagram for a briefly understanding.
In some special case, you may have a public IP subnet from your ISP such as
220.135.240.0/24. This means that you can set up a public subnet or call second subnet that
each host is equipped with a public IP address. As a part of the public subnet, the Vigor router
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will serve for IP routing to help hosts in the public subnet to communicate with other public
hosts or servers outside. Therefore, the router should be set as the gateway for public hosts.
What is Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
Vigor router will exchange routing information with neighboring routers using the RIP to
accomplish IP routing. This allows users to change the information of the router such as IP
address and the routers will automatically inform for each other.
What is Static Route
When you have several subnets in your LAN, sometimes a more effective and quicker way for
connection
is the
Static routes
function rather than other method. You may simply set rules to
forward data from one specified subnet to another specified subnet without the presence of
RIP.
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What are Virtual LANs
You can group local hosts by physical ports and create up to 4 virtual LANs. To manage the
communication between different groups, please set up rules in Virtual LAN (VLAN) function
and the rate of each.
Web Page Configuration
This page provides you the general settings for LAN.
Click
LAN
to open the LAN settings page and choose
General Setup
.
1st IP Address
Type in private IP address for connecting to a local private network
1st Subnet Mask
Type in an address code that determines the size of the network.
(Default: 255.255.255.0/ 24)
For IP Routing Usage
Click
Enable
to invoke this function. The default setting is
Disable
.
2
nd
IP Address
Type in secondary IP address for connecting to a subnet.
(Default: 192.168.2.1)
2
nd
Subnet Mask
An address code that determines the size of the network.
(Default: 255.255.255.0/ 24)
19216811.live