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Viewing MediaFast Statistics

To get details on storage and bandwidth usage, select

Status>MediaFast

.

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Configuring the LAN Interface

LAN Interface settings are located at

Network>Interfaces>LAN

.

IP Settings

IP Address &

Subnet Mask

Enter the

Peplink Balance’s

IP address and subnet mask values to be used on the LAN.

Speed

This setting specifies the speed of the LAN Ethernet port.

By default, Auto is selected and the appropriate data speed is automatically detected by

Peplink Balance.

In the event of negotiation issues, the port speed can be manually specified to circumvent

the issues. You can also choose whether or not to advertise the speed to the peer by

selecting the Advertise Speed checkbox.

To enable VLAN configuration, press the

button under

IP Settings

. After clicking the link, the following

screen will appear:

Click the

New LAN

button to reach the following screen:

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VLAN-enabled IP Settings

Name

This field specified the name of this particular VLAN

IP Address

Enter Peplink Balance’s IP address and subnet mask values to be used on the VLAN.

VLAN ID

Please enter a numerical value to identify this VLAN.

Captive Portal

This options switches on captive portal for users connected to this VLAN. Users on open

networks will receive a splash screen, while users on closed networks will receive a login

screen.

DHCP Server

Check the Enable box to enable the built-in DHCP server which serves DHCP requests on

the LAN.

Port Settings

Ports

To choose a physical Ethernet port to act as a LAN interface (in addition to the dedicated

LAN port or ports), check the appropriate box and choose a speed setting from the drop-

down menu immediately to the right of the listing. The default setting is Auto, which allows

the Balance to detect and apply an appropriate data speed setting.

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Drop-in Mode Settings

(Available on Peplink Balance 210+ and MediaFast 200+)

Enable

Drop-in Mode eases the installation of the Peplink Balance on a live network between the

existing firewall and router, such that no configuration changes are required on existing

equipment. Check the box to enable the Drop-in Mode feature.

Please refer to

Section 11, Drop-in Mode

for details.

WAN for Drop-In

Mode

Select the WAN port to be used for Drop-in Mode. If

WAN 1 with LAN Bypass

is selected,

the High Availability feature will be disabled automatically.

Shared Drop-In

Mode

A

When this option is enabled, the passthrough IP address will be used to connect to WAN

hosts (email notification, remote syslog, etc.). The Balance will listen for this IP address

when WAN hosts access services provided by the Balance (Web Admin access from the

WAN, DNS server requests, etc.).

To connect to hosts on the LAN (email notification, remote syslog, etc.), the default gateway

address will be used. The Balance will listen for this IP address when LAN hosts access

services provided by the Balance (Web Admin access from the WAN, DNS proxy, etc.).

Shared IP

Address

A

Access to this IP address will be passed through to the LAN port if this device is not serving

the service being accessed. The shared IP Address will be used in connecting to hosts on

the WAN (e.g. email notification, remote syslog, etc.) The device will also listen on the IP

address when hosts on the WAN access services served on this device (e.g. web admin

accesses from WAN, DNS server, etc.)

WAN Default

Gateway

Enter the WAN router's IP address in this field. If there are more hosts in addition to the

router on the WAN segment, check the I

have other host(s) on WAN segment

box and

enter the IP address of the hosts that need to access LAN devices or be accessed by

others.

WAN DNS Servers

Enter the selected WAN's corresponding DNS server IP addresses.

A

- Advanced feature, please click the

button on the top right hand corner to activate.

Note: Drop-in Mode and VLAN functionality are mutually exclusive.

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DHCP Server Settings

DHCP Server

When this setting is enabled, the

Peplink Balance’s

DHCP server automatically assigns an

IP address to each computer that is connected via LAN and is configured to obtain an IP

address via DHCP. The

Peplink Balance’s DHCP server can prevent IP address collision

s

on the LAN.

IP Range &

Subnet Mask

These settings allocate a range of IP address that will be assigned to LAN computers by the

Peplink Balance

’s DHCP server

.

Lease Time

This setting specifies the length of time throughout which an IP address of a DHCP client

remains valid. Upon expiration of

Lease Time

, the assigned IP address will no longer be

valid and the IP address assignment must be renewed.

DNS Servers

This option allows you to input the DNS server addresses to be offered to DHCP clients. If

Assign DNS server automatically

is selected, the Peplink Balance’s built

-in DNS server

address (i.e., LAN IP address) will be offered.

WINS Server

This option allows you to specify the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) server. You

may choose to use the built-in WINS server or external WINS servers.

When this unit is connected using SpeedFusion

TM

, other VPN peers can share this unit's

built-in WINS server by entering this unit's LAN IP address in their

DHCP WINS Servers

setting. Therefore, all PC clients in the VPN can resolve the NetBIOS names of other clients

in remote peers. If you have enabled this option, a list of WINS clients will be displayed at

Status>WINS Clients

.

Extended DHCP

Option

In addition to standard DHCP options (e.g. DNS server address, gateway address, subnet

mask), you can specify the value of additional extended DHCP options, as defined in RFC

2132. With these extended options enabled, you can pass additional configuration

information to LAN hosts.

To define an extended DHCP option, click the

Add

button, choose the option to define, and

then enter its value. For values that are in IP address list format, you can enter one IP

address per line in the provided text area input control. Each option can be defined once

only.

DHCP Reservation

This setting reserves the assignment of fixed IP addresses for a list of computers on the

LAN. The computers to be assigned fixed IP addresses on the LAN are identified by their

MAC addresses.

The fixed IP address assignment is displayed as a cross-reference list between the

computers’

names, MAC addresses, and fixed IP addresses.

Name

(an optional field) allows you to specify a name to represent the device.

MAC

addresses should be in the format of

00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE

. Press

to create a new

record.

Press

to remove a record. Reserved clients information can be imported from

the

Client List

, located at

Status>Client List

. For more details, please refer to section

26.3

.