User's Manual

Chapter 3 Network Interface

Select “Interface” of “System Management Tools”, and then a figure will appear as follows:

The figure displays current network configurations. If your system is equipped with more

than four Ethernet NICs, the menu will automatically extend and automatically detect the

manufacturers and the NIC types, without the hassle of manually setting up the driver.

Let’s have the description for each network NIC’s utilization:

1. 1st Ethernet NIC – It’s dedicated for connecting to WAN (Internet). For different

network connectivity requirement, there are three network architectures for user to

make desired configuration. Please select a correct architecture depends on your

network environment. The “Device” represents the NIC code identified by the system.

Here r1 stands for Realtek, fxp for Intel. The “Ether” represents MAC Address of the

NIC, that is the code of NIC manufacturers and serial number of the product.

1.1 PPPoE: If you are using ADSL for Internet connectivity. Than you have to enable

the PPPoE option. Please click on “PPPoE Configure”, the configuration table will

show as below. Please enter the authentication user and password information as

provided from ISP.

1.2 DHCP: If user using DHCP to dynamically apply for IP address from ISP. They

must to enable the DHCP function. Please click on “DHCP”, the configuration

table will show as below. You will find the acquired IP Address and Netmask

information in the field.