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Figure 4-2

¾

Remove

: Select the check box in the table on the screen above and then click the

Remove

button, the corresponding interface will be deleted in the table.

)

Note:

If the interface is used by the configuration of the

4.4.2

WAN Service

, you need to remove the

corresponding WAN Service entry first before you can remove it here.

¾

Add

: Click the button, and you can add a new interface in the next screen.

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Figure 4-3

¾

VPI

/

VCI

: the VPI and VCI values provided by your ISP. Do not change them unless it was

required by your ISP.

¾

DSL Link Type

: Select a DSL Link Type which is provided by your ISP. The options include

EoA

(it

is for PPPoE, IPoE, and Bridge),

PPPoA

(PPP over ATM) and

IPoA

(IP over ATM).

¾

Encapsulation Mode

: The mode of the data processing over the Link Type you have

selected. Uses the default setting, if you are not sure.

¾

Service Category

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

The default type is

UBR Without PCR

.

¾

Connection Mode

: Select the connection mode for

EoA

option of DSL Link Type. The

options include Default mode for single service over one connection, VLAN MUX Mode for

multiple Vlan service over one connection, and MSC Mode for Multiple Service over one

connection.

¾

Enable Quality of Service

: If you want to adopt

QoS

(Quality of Service) for the connection,

please select check box.

)

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

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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

4.4.8 Quality of Service

.

4.4.1.2 ETH interface

Choose “

Advanced Setup

”

Æ

“

Layer2 Interface

Æ

ETH Interface

”, you can configure ETH WAN

interfaces on the screen below.

Figure 4-4

)

Note:

To make sure the ETH port available, you should first choose “

Advanced Setup

”

Æ

“

LAN Ports

” to

enable the Virtual LAN Ports feature.

¾

Add:

Click the

Add

button, and you can add a new interface in the next screen.

Figure 4-5

¾

ETH port

: Select an ETH port to configure as the WAN port.

¾

Select Connection Mode

: Choose a connection mode for the port.

Click

Apply/Save

to save your settings and then you will see the screen similar to Figure 4-6.

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Figure 4-6

¾

Remove:

Select the check box in the table on the screen above and then click the

Remove

button, the corresponding interface will be deleted in the table.

)

Note:

One ETH is allowed to configure as the layer 2 WAN Interface.

4.4.2 WAN Service

Choose “

Advanced Setup

”

Æ

“

WAN Service

”, and you will see the WAN Port Information Table in

the screen similar to Figure 4-7, which describes the WAN port settings and the relevant

manipulation to each interface. After you add a new Lay2 Interface, please follow the instructions

below to complete the further configuration of WAN Interface. There are five different

configurations for the connection types, which are PPPoE, IPoE, Bridge, PPPoA, and IPoA. You

can select the corresponding types according to your needs.

Figure 4-7

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)

Note:

1) The following section adopts different VPI, VCI to introduce further configuration for the

different connection types, if you need to change the configuration of ATM PVC (VPI/VCI), you

should go to the previous section (

4.4.1

Layer2 Interface

) to configure them again.

2) ETH and ATM service can not coexist. If the ETH Interface had configured, you cannot

configure any other WAN service over the ATM Interface until the ETH Interface is deleted.

4.4.2.1 ATM-EoA-PPPoE

If your ISP provides a

PPPoE

connection and you need to use an ATM Interface, follow the steps

below to add a WAN service over a selected ATM interface:

1.

Add a

new

ATM interface and select

EoA

option for DSL Link Type (

4.4.1.1

ATM interface

).

2.

Click the

Add

button on the screen Figure 4-7 and you will enter the next screen as shown in

Figure 4-8. Click

Next

.

Figure 4-8

3.

Select the

WAN service type

in Figure 4-9. If your ISP provides a PPPoE connection, select

PPPoE

option. You can create a service name for the

Service Description

or leave it the

default name. Click

Next

.

Figure 4-9

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