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6.

You can have email alerts sent immediately when someone attempts to visit a blocked site

and you can specify that logs are sent automatically.

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

period, the log is automatically 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.

7.

Click

Apply

to save your settings.

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Administration

Managing your network

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

home network. See also

Remote Management

on page 91 for information on upgrading or

checking the status of your router over the Internet, and

Traffic Meter

on page 94 for

information on monitoring the volume of Internet traffic passing through 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

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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 Firmware 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:

8.

Select

Advanced > Administration > Firmware Update

to display the following screen:

Click Check

9.

Click

Check

.

The router finds new firmware information if any is available.

10.

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 or not you

need to reconfigure the router after upgrading.

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View Router Status

To view router status and usage information, click the

Advanced Home

button or select

Administration > Router Status

to display the following screen:

Router 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 GUI.

LAN Port

.

•

MAC Address

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

being used by the Ethernet (LAN) port of the router.

•

IP Address

. The IP address being 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 the

LAN-attached devices.

Internet Provider (WAN) Setup

MAC Address

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

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

IP Address

. The IP address being 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.

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

Domain Name Server

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

Domain Name Server translates human-language URLs such as

www.netgear.com

into IP

addresses.

Statistics Button

On the Router Status screen, in the Internet Provider (WAN) Setup pane, click

the Statistics

button to display the following screen:

Figure 7. System up time and poll interval statistics

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:

•

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

.

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