User guide

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Configure
• Always On: This setting provides convenience, but it leaves your network perma-
nently connected to the Internet.
• Instant On furnishes almost all the benefits of an Always On connection, but has
additional security benefits:
- Your network cannot be attacked when it is not connected.
- Your network may change address with each connection, making it more difficult to
attack.
Timeout: (only appears if Instant-On Connection Type is selected) Specifies the time in
seconds before disconnect if there is no traffic over the Internet link.
Advanced:
If you click the Advanced link, the Advanced WAN IP Interface configuration page
appears.
Local Address: If this value is 0.0.0.0,
the Gateway will acquire its IP address
from your ISP. Otherwise this address is
assigned to the virtual PPP inter face.
Peer Address: Address of the server on
the Service Provider side of the ppp link.
This peer will attempt to negotiate the
local IP address if IP Address = 0.0.0.0. If
the remote peer does not accept the IP
address, the link will not come up.
RIP Receive Mode: Routing Information
Protocol (RIP) is needed if there are IP
routers on other segments of your Ether-
net network that the Netopia Gateway
needs to recognize. Set to Off, Netopia
Firmware Version 7.6.1 will accept infor-
mation from either RIP-1 or RIP-2 routers.
With Receive RIP Mode set to RIP-1, the
Netopia Gateway will accept routing infor-
mation provided by RIP packets from other
routers that use the same subnet mask.