EDIMAX BR-6504n Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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2-5-7 Setup procedure for ‘DNS’:

If you select ‘

Dynamic IP

’ or ‘

PPPoE

’ as Internet connection method, at least

one DNS server’s IP address should be assigned automatically. However, if

you have preferred DNS server, or your service provider didn’t assign the IP

address of DNS server because of any reason, you can input the IP address of

DNS server here.

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

DNS Address :

Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by

your service provider.

Secondary

Please input the IP address of another DNS

DNS Address :

server provided by your service provider, this is

optional.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’

button, and the

following message will be displayed on your web browser:

NOTE: Only IP address can be entered here;

DO NOT

use the hostname

of DNS server! (i.e. only numeric characters and dots are accepted)

10.20.30.40……………………………………………………………… Correct

dns.serviceprovider.com…………………………………………... Incorrect

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Please click ‘Continue’ to 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 50 seconds while router is rebooting).

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

please click ‘Cancel’ button.

2-5-8 Setup procedure for ‘DDNS’:

DDNS (Dynamic DNS) is a IP-to-Hostname mapping service for those

Internet users who don’t have a static (fixed) IP address. It will be a problem

when such user wants to provide services to other users on Internet, because

their IP address will vary every time when connected to Internet, and other

user will not be able to know the IP address they’re using at a certain time.

This router supports DDNS service of following service providers:

DynDNS (

http://www.dyndns.org

)

TZO (

http://www.tzo.com

)

Please go to one of DDNS service provider’s webpage listed above, and get a

free DDNS account by the instructions given on their webpage.

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Dynamic DNS :

If you want to enable DDNS function, please select

‘Enabled’; otherwise please select ‘Disabled’.

Provider :

Select your DDNS service provider here.

Domain Name :

Input the domain name you’ve obtained from DDNS

service provider.

Account /

Input account or email of DDNS registration.

E-Mail :

Password / Key :

Input DDNS service password or key.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’

button, and the

following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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Please click ‘Continue’ to 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 50 seconds while router is rebooting).

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

please click ‘Cancel’ button.

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2-6

Wired LAN Configuration

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

connect 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 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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