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Figure 5-5

1.

Follow the instructions below to configure the

ATM PVC

on the screen (shown in Figure 5-5).

Make sure you have the necessary information before you configure it.

1)

Enter the

VPI

and

VCI

values provided by your ISP, they should not be changed unless

you have been instructed to change it by your ISP.

2)

Select the type of the service assigned by your ISP in the drop-down list. The default type

is

UBR Without PCR

.

3)

If you want to adopt

QoS

(Quality of Service) for the connection, please select the

Enable Quality Of Service

check box.

4)

Click the

Next

button for the further configuration in the next screen (shown in Figure

5-6), or else click the

Back

button to go to the previous screen.

Note:

Enabling packet level QoS for PVC improves performance for selected classes of applications.

While QoS consumes system resources; therefore the number of PVC(s) will be reduced. Besides

this, it cannot be set for the connection type of CBR and Real-time VBR. If you select the QoS

service, the Quality of Service menu will be added to the Web-based Utility, the detailed

configuration will be described in

5.4.5 Quality of Service

.

2.

Select the

Connection Type

in the next screen (shown in Figure 5-6).

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Figure 5-6

1)

Select the

Connection Type

and

Encapsulation Mode

your ISP has instructed you to

use, the default connection type is Bridging.

2)

If you want to add to an assigned VLAN, please select the

Enable 802.1q

check box,

and enter the

VLAN ID

.

3)

Click the

Next

button to go to the next screen to make further configurations for the WAN

Port, or else click the

Back

button to go to the previous screen to make modifications.

Note:

802.1q VLAN tagging is only available for the connection type of

PPPoE

,

MER

and

Bridging

.

After you select the

Connection Type

, please follow the instructions below to complete the

further configuration of WAN Interface. There are five different configurations for the connection

types, which are

PPPoA

,

PPPoE

,

MER

,

IPoA

and

Bridge

. You can select the corresponding

types according to your needs. Note that this User Guide adopts different VPI, VCI and QoS to

introduce further configuration for the different connection types below, if you need to change the

configuration of ATM PVC (VPI, VCI and QoS), you should go to the previous screen (shown in

Figure 5-5) to configure them again.

1.

PPPoA

If you choose connection type

PPPoA

on the screen above (shown in Figure 5-6),

you will

see the screen below (shown in Figure 5-7). Follow the instructions to configure the WAN

Interface.

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Figure 5-7

1) Enter the

PPP Username

and

PPP Password

provided by your ISP exactly, select the

Authentication Method

in the drop-down list, the default method is

AUTO

, you can

leave it as a default setting.

2)

If you wish to active the “Connect on Demand” function, click the

Dial on the demand

radio-button, and enter the

Inactivity timeout

value, the range is from 1 to 4320 minutes.

Then the Router will cut off the Internet connection after it has been inactive for a specific

period of time (Inactivity Timeout). If your Internet connection is terminated due to

inactivity, Connect on Demand enables the Router to automatically re-establish your

connection as soon as you attempt to access the Internet again.

3)

If you are required to use a permanent IP address, select the option

Static IP Address

and enter the value in the text box.

4) Click the

Next

button to go to the next screen below (shown in Figure 5-8), or else click

the

Back

button to return to the previous screen to make modifications.

Note:

If you are not sure about the

PPP IP extension

and

PPP Debug Mode

, please don’t select this

option.

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Figure 5-8

5) Enable the

IGMP Multicast

and

WAN Service

on the screen above,

if you are not sure

about the setting, just leave the default settings.

6) Click the

Next

button, and you will see the next screen which displays the detailed

settings you’ve made (shown in Figure 5-9).

Figure 5-9

7) If you are sure about the configuration, click the

Save

button to save these settings,

otherwise click the

Back

button to return to the previous screen to make modifications.

The information is same as the information in Figure 5-4.

2.

PPPoE

If you choose

PPPoE

in the previous screen (shown in Figure 5-6), the configuration is

similar to

PPPoA

, the only difference is that you should set the

PPPoE Service Name

on

the corresponding screen. You can refer to

Chapter 4

to achieve the configuration for the

connection type.

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3.

MER

If you choose

MER

in the previous screen (shown in Figure 5-6), you can see the screen

(shown in Figure 5-10). Follow the instructions to configure the connection.

Figure 5-10

1) Configure the

WAN IP Address

. If you are provided a dynamic IP Address, please select

obtain an IP address automatically

, and then the Router will automatically get IP

parameters from your ISP. If you are provided with a static IP Address, please select

Use

the following IP Address

, and then enter the

WAN IP Address

and

WAN Subnet

Mask

.

2) Configure the

default

gateway

. If you are provided a dynamic gateway address, please

select

obtain default gateway automatically

, and then the Router will automatically get

gateway parameters from your ISP. If you are provided with a static gateway, please

select

Use the following default gateway

, and then enter the gateway address.

3)

Configure the DNS. If you are provided dynamic DNS server addresses, please select

obtain DNS server addresses automatically

, then the Router will automatically get

DNS server addresses from your ISP. If you are provided static DNS server addresses,

please select

Use the following DNS server addresses

, then enter the DNS Server

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