User`s manual

Cable/DSL

This field indicates the Internet connection status. Its value is Connected , Disconnected

or Connecting.

WAN IP

Connected to the Internet through Cable or ADSL modem, the ISP will offer the home

gateway a WAN IP address to communicate with other hosts in the Internet.

Subnet Mask

This field indicates a

mask used to determine what subnet the WAN IP address belongs to.

An IP address has two components, the network address and the host address. For

example, consider the IP address 192.168.168.182 with subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, the

first three numbers (192.168.168) represent the Class C network address, and the forth

number (182) identifies a particular host on this network.

Gateway

“Gateway” is a node on a network that serves as an entrance to another network. For the

home gateway, The “Gateway” is the next device, which routes the traffic to the Internet.

DNS

Domain Name System (or Service or Server) is an Internet service that translates domain

names into IP addresses. Because the domain names are alphabetic, they are easier to

remember. However, the Internet is based on IP addresses. Every time you use a

domain name, a DNS service must translate the name into the corresponding IP address.

For example, the domain name www.example.com might translate to 198.105.232.4. The

DNS system has its own network. If one DNS server doesn't know how to translate a

particular domain name, it will ask its upper stream server, and so on, until the correct IP

address is returned or timed-out.

Secondary DNS

This is the secondary DNS to use when the primary DNS does not work.

Domain Name

Domain name is a name, which identifies one or more IP addresses. This field represents

the domain name obtained from your ISP.

Connection Type

There are five ways to get the WAN IP address. They are DHCP, STATIC, PPPoE, PPTP

and L2TP. This field indicates the way to get the WAN IP address. Through Figure 3-2 to

3-6 detail all specific items of each mode.