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Authentication with SMTP Server

—If you use an outgoing mail server provided by your

current ISP, you do not need to check this box. If you use an e-mail account that is not

provided by your ISP, check this box and enter the required user name and password

information.

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Send To This E-mail Address

—Enter the e-mail address to which logs and alerts are sent.

This e-mail address will also be used as the From address. If you leave this box blank, log and

alert messages will not be sent via e-mail.

You can specify that logs are automatically sent to the specified e-mail address with these options:

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Send alert immediately—

Check this box if you would like immediate notification of

attempted access to a blocked site.

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Send logs according to this schedule—

Use this option to specify how often to send the logs:

Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or When Full.

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Day for sending log

Specifies which day of the week to send the log. Relevant when the log is sent weekly or

daily.

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Time for sending log

Specifies the time of day to send the log. Relevant when the log is sent daily or weekly.

If the Weekly, Daily or Hourly option is selected and the log fills up before the specified

period, the log is automatically e-mailed to the specified e-mail address. After the log is sent,

the log is cleared from the router’s memory. If the router cannot e-mail the log file, the log

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

The RP614v4 router uses the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to obtain the current time and date

from one of several Network Time Servers on the Internet. In order to localize the time for your

log entries, you must specify your Time Zone:

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Time Zone

—Select your local time zone. This setting will be used for the blocking schedule

and for time-stamping log entries.

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Daylight Savings Time

—Check this box if your time zone is currently under daylight savings

time.

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Chapter 3

Maintenance

This chapter describes how to use the maintenance features of your RP614v4 Cable/DSL Router.

These features can be found by clicking on the Maintenance heading in the Main Menu of the

browser interface.

Viewing Router Status Information

The Router Status menu provides status and usage information. From the Main Menu of the

browser interface, click on Maintenance, then select System Status to view the Router Status

screen, shown below.

Figure 3-1

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This screen shows the following parameters:

Description

MAC Address

IP Address

DHCP

IP Subnet Mask

Domain Name Server (DNS)

MAC Address

IP Address

DHCP

IP Subnet Mask

Table 3-1.

Router Status Fields

Account Name

This field displays the Host Name assigned to the router.

Firmware Version

This field displays the router firmware version.

Internet Port

These parameters apply to the Internet (Wire Area Network also referred

to as WAN) port of the router.

This field displays the Media Access Control address being used by the

Internet (WAN) port of the router.

This field displays the IP address being used by the Internet (WAN) port

of the router. If no address is shown, the router cannot connect to the

Internet.

If set to FixedIP, the router is configured to use a fixed IP address on the

WAN.

If set to Client, the router is configured to obtain an IP address

dynamically from the ISP.

This field displays the IP Subnet Mask being used by the Internet (WAN)

port of the router.

This field displays the IPaddress(es) of the DNS server(s).

LAN Port

These parameters apply to the Local (LAN) port of the router.

This field displays the Media Access Control address being used by the

LAN port of the router.

This field displays the IP address being used by the Local (LAN) port of

the router. The default is 192.168.1.1

Identifies if the router’s built-in DHCP server is active for the LAN

attached devices.

This field displays the IP Subnet Mask being used by the Local (LAN)

port of the router. The default is 255.255.255.0

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Click on the

Connection Status

button to display the connection status, as shown below.

Figure 3-2

This screen shows the following statistics:.

Description

Table 3-2:

Connection Status Items

IP Address

The WAN (Internet) IP Address assigned to the router.

Subnet Mask

The WAN (Internet) Subnet Mask assigned to the router.

Default Gateway

The WAN (Internet) default gateway the router communicates with.

DHCP Server

The IP address of the DHCP server which provided the IP configuration addresses.

DNS Server

The IP address of the DNS server which provides network name to IP address

translation.

Lease Obtained

When the DHCP lease was obtained.

Lease Expires

When the DHCP lease was expires.

Release

Click the Release button to release the DHCP lease.

Renew

Click the Renew button to renew the DHCP lease.

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Click on the

Show Statistics

button to display router usage statistics, as shown below.

Figure 3-3

This screen shows the following statistics:

Description

Status

TxPkts

RxPkts

Collisions

Tx B/s

Rx B/s

Up Time

Table 3-3:

Router Statistics Items

System Up Time

The amount of time since the router was last restarted.

Port

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

displays:

The link status of the port.

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

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

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

The current transmission (outbound) bandwidth used on the LAN ports.

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

The time elapsed since this port acquired the link.

Poll Interval

Specifies the intervals at which the statistics are updated in this window. Click on Stop

to freeze the display.

Set Interval

Enter a time and click the button to set the polling frequency.

Stop

Click the Stop button to freeze the polling information.