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Viewing MTA Status

The MTA Status screen shows the status of the voice ports on the gateway. From the main menu,

under the Setup heading, select MTA Status. The MTA Status screen appears:

Guest Network

The guest network feature allows you to set up an additional wireless guest network. From the

main menu, under the Setup heading, select Guest Network. The Wireless Guest Network Setting

screen appears:

See the NETGEAR online help for assistance with setting up a wireless guest network.

Figure 4-5

Figure 4-6

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Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM)

The Voice Gateway includes Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), which is a Quality of Service (QoS)

feature. This feature is enabled, and the Voice Gateway uses it automatically with clients running

applications that support WMM.

WMM QoS provides prioritization of wireless data packets from different applications based on

four categories: voice, video, best effort, and background. For an application to receive the

benefits of WMM QoS, both it and the client running that application must be WMM-enabled.

Legacy applications that do not support WMM, and applications that do not require QoS, are

assigned to the best-effort category, which receives a lower priority than voice and video.

From the main menu, under the Setup heading, select Wi-Fi Multimedia. The Wi-Fi Multimedia

screen appears:

The default setting is

Auto

. You can change the setting to

On

or

Off

. If you make a change, click

Apply to change the settings.

LAN IP Settings

The gateway is preconfigured to use private IP addresses on the LAN side, and to act as a DHCP

server. The LAN IP settings are explained below:

•

LAN IP address.

This is the IP address of the gateway.

The default is 192.168.0.1.

•

Subnet mask.

This is the LAN subnet mask of the gateway. The default is 255.255.255.0.

Combined with the IP address, the subnet mask allows a device to know which other addresses

are local to it, and which must be reached through a gateway or router.

Figure 4-7

Note:

If you change the LAN IP address of the gateway while connected through the

browser, you will be disconnected. You must then open a new connection to

the new IP address and log in again

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These addresses are part of the IETF-designated private address range for use in private

networks, and should be suitable in most applications. If your network has a requirement to

use a different IP addressing scheme, you can make those changes in the LAN IP page.

•

DHCP Server.

By default, the gateway is a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

server. See

“Using the Gateway as a DHCP Server” on page 4-8

.

•

Starting Address and Ending Address

. Specify the pool of IP addresses to be assigned by

setting the Starting IP Address and Ending IP Address. These addresses should be part of the

same IP address subnet as the gateway’s LAN IP address. Using the default addressing

scheme, you should define a range between 192.168.0.10 and 192.168.0.253. The range of IP

addresses between 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.9 can be used for devices with fixed (or static)

addresses.

•

DHCP Reservation Lease Info.

View information about each PC that has been assigned a

DHCP lease by the gateway. The MAC address of the PC, IP address assigned and the

expiration time of the DHCP lease are listed. You can manually revoke the DHCP leases by

clicking Clear DHCP Leases.

Using the Gateway as a DHCP Server

By default, the gateway is a DHCP server. It can assign IP, DNS server, and default gateway

addresses to all computers connected to the LAN. The default wireless voice gateway address is its

LAN address. The wireless voice gateway assigns IP addresses to the network computers from a

pool of addresses specified in the Starting Address and Ending Address fields. Each pool address

is tested before it is assigned to avoid duplicate addresses on the LAN.

The gateway delivers the following parameters to any LAN device that requests DHCP:

•

An IP Address from the range you have defined.

•

Subnet Mask.

•

Gateway IP Address is the gateway’s LAN IP address.

•

Primary DNS Server, if you entered a Primary DNS address in the Basic Settings page;

otherwise, the gateway’s LAN IP address.

Note:

If another device on your network is the DHCP server, or if you will manually

configure the network settings of all of your computers, select No for the DHCP

Server. For more information about DHCP and IP addresses, see the link to

“Preparing a Computer for Network Access:” in Appendix B

.

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•

Secondary DNS Server, if you entered a Secondary DNS address in the Basic Settings page.

Configuring the LAN IP Settings

You can use the LAN IP Setup page to configure LAN IP services such as the IP address of the

gateway and DHCP.

To configure the LAN IP:

1.

Under the Advanced heading on the main menu, select LAN IP. The LAN IP screen displays.

2.

Enter the following information:

•

LAN IP Address.

The LAN IP address that you want to assign to your gateway. The

default is 192.168.0.1.

•

Subnet Mask.

The subnet mask for your network IP address. The default is

255.255.255.0. (Unless you are implementing subnetting, use the default subnet mask.)

•

DHCP Server.

To to assign IP addresses to your computers automatically, select Yes. To

disable the DHCP Server and assign IP addresses to your computers manually, select No

.

Note:

The gateway implements a DNS Relay function. When it receives a DNS request

on the LAN, it passes it to the DNS server specified on the WAN. It then relays the

response back to the original requesting PC.

Figure 4-8

Note:

If you select no for the DHCP server setting, then you must assign a static

IP address to your PC in order to reconnect to the gateway and enable the

DHCP server again.

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•

Starting IP Address.

Enter the first of the contiguous addresses in the address pool. The

default start address is 192.168.0.10.

•

Ending IP Address.

Enter the last of the contiguous addresses in the address pool. The

default end address is 192.168.0.19.

3.

Click

Apply

to save your settings.

To configure DHCP server reservation parameters for your LAN:

1.

Enter the MAC address of the PC for which you want to reserve an IP Address.

2.

Enter a free IP Address for the PC.

3.

CLick

Add

.

To remove a reserved IP from the DHCP Reservation Lease Info table:

1.

Select the radio button adjacent to the entry that you want to remove from the table.

2.

Click

Delete

.

The DHCP Client Lease details for all computers in the LAN gateway are shown in the DHCP

Client Lease Info table. To clear all DHCP Client leases, click Clear DHCP Leases.

.

Remote Management Access

You can use remote management to configure, upgrade, and check the status of your gateway

through the Internet.