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Security Event Email Notifications

To receive logs and alerts by email, provide your email information in the Email screen, and

specify which alerts you want to receive and how often.



To set up email notifications:

1.

Select

Advanced > Security >

Email

to display the following screen:

2.

To receive email logs and alerts from the router, select the

Turn Email Notification On

check box.

3.

In the Your Outgoing Mail Server field, enter the name of your ISP’s outgoing (SMTP) mail

server (such as mail.myISP.com).

You might be able to find this information in the configuration screen of your email

program. If you leave this field blank, log and alert messages are not sent by email.

4.

Enter the email address to which logs and alerts are sent in the

Send to This Email

Address

field.

This email address is also used for the From address. If you leave this field blank, log and

alert messages are not sent by email.

5.

If your outgoing email server requires authentication, select the

My Mail Server requires

authentication

check box, and complete the User Name and Password fields for the

outgoing email server.

6.

To have email alerts sent immediately when someone attempts to visit a blocked site, select

the

Send Alert Immediately

check box.

7.

(Optional) Establish a log email schedule.

If you select the Weekly, Daily, or Hourly option and the log fills up before the specified

period, the log is emailed to the specified email address. After the log is sent, the log is

cleared from the router’s memory. If the router cannot email the log file, the log buffer

might fill up. In this case, the router overwrites the log and discards its contents.

8.

Click

Apply

to save your settings.

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6.

Administration

Managing your network

This chapter describes the router settings for administering and maintaining your router and

home network. See

Remote Management

on page

80 for information about checking the status

of your router over the Internet, and

Traffic Meter

on page

83 for information about monitoring

Internet traffic on your router’s Internet port.

This chapter includes the following sections:

•

Upgrade the Router Firmware

•

View Router Status

•

View Logs of Web Access or Attempted Web Access

•

Manage the Configuration File

•

Set Password

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Upgrade the Router Firmware

The router firmware (routing software) is stored in flash memory. You can update the

firmware from the Administration menu on the Advanced tab. You might see a message at

the top of the genie screens when new firmware is available for your product.

You can use the Check button on the Router Update screen to check and update to the latest

firmware for your product if new firmware is available.



To check for new firmware and update your router:

1.

Select

Advanced > Administration > Firmware Update

to display the following

screen:

Click

Check

2.

Click the

Check

button.

If new firmware is available, the router finds it.

3.

Click

Yes

to update and locate the firmware you downloaded (the file ends in .img).

WARNING!

When uploading firmware to the router,

do not

interrupt the web

browser by closing the window, clicking a link, or loading a new

page. If the browser is interrupted, it could corrupt the firmware.

When the upload is complete, your router restarts. The upgrade process typically takes

about 1 minute. Read the new firmware release notes to determine whether you need to

reconfigure the router after upgrading.

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View Router Status

To view router status and usage information, select

Advanced Home

or select

Administration > Router Status

to display the following screen:

Router Status

This router status section provides the following information:

•

Hardware Version

. The router model.

•

Firmware Version

. The version of the router firmware. It changes if you upgrade the

router firmware.

•

GUI Language Version

. The localized language of the user interface.

•

MAC Address

. The Media Access Control address is the unique physical address used

by the Ethernet (LAN) port of the router.

•

IP Address

. The IP address used by the Ethernet (LAN) port of the router. The default is

192.168.1.1.

•

DHCP Server

. Identifies whether the router’s built-in DHCP server is active for devices on

the LAN.

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Internet Port

The Internet port section provides the following information:

•

MAC Address

. The Media Access Control address, which is the unique physical address

used by the Internet (WAN) port of the router.

•

IP Address

. The IP address used by the Internet (WAN) port of the router. If no address

is shown or the address is 0.0.0, the router cannot connect to the Internet.

•

Connection

. This shows if the router is using a fixed IP address on the WAN. If the value

is DHCP Client, the router obtains an IP address dynamically from the ISP.

•

IP Subnet Mask

. The IP subnet mask used by the Internet (WAN) port of the router.

•

Domain Name Server

. The Domain Name Server addresses used by the router. A

Domain Name Server translates human-language URLs such as

www.netgear.com

into

IP addresses.

•

Show Statistics button

. Click the

Show Statistics

button to display the following

screen:

The Show Statistics screen provides the following information:

•

System Up Time

. The time elapsed since the router was last restarted.

•

Port

. The statistics for the WAN (Internet) and LAN (Ethernet) ports. For each port,

the screen displays the following information:

•

Status

. The link status of the port.

•

TxPkts

. The number of packets transmitted on this port since reset or manual

clear.

•

RxPkts

. The number of packets received on this port since reset or manual clear.

•

Collisions

. The number of collisions on this port since reset or manual clear.

•

Tx B/s

. The current transmission (outbound) bandwidth used on the WAN and

LAN ports.

•

Rx B/s

. The current reception (inbound) bandwidth used on the WAN and LAN

ports.

•

Up Time

. The time elapsed since this port acquired the link.

•

Poll Interval

. The interval at which the statistics are updated in this screen. To

change the polling frequency, enter a time in seconds in the Poll Interval field, and

click

Set Interval

. To stop the polling entirely, click

Stop

.