Reference Guide

Monitoring Tools 14-17
It displays useful general information about your router:
Ethernet Address: The router’s hardware or MAC address
Firmware Version: The router’s model number and current firmware revision level
Current Date: The current date and time, as you have configured them
IP Address: The router’s internal IP address
IPX Network Address: The router’s IPX network address, if you have it enabled and are on an IPX network
The display contains two frames, a navigation frame on the left and the information and configuration page on
the right.
The left frame permits you to navigate to:
■ System
■ Information: displays the router’s hardware (MAC) address, the model number and firmware version
currently installed, the current date and time, the router’s IP address, and the IPX address, if any.
■ Event History
■ “WAN Event History page” on page 14-18: displays the most recent events that the router reports for
your WAN connections.
■ “Device Event History page” on page 14-19: displays the most recent events that the router reports of
its own internal activity.
If you click any link in the left frame, that page is displayed in the right frame.
Event History pages
The Netopia R6000 Series records certain relevant occurrences in event histories. Event histories are useful
for diagnosing problems because they list what happened before, during, and after a problem occurs. You can
view two different event histories: one for the router’s system and one for the WAN. The Netopia R6000
Series’s built-in battery backup prevents loss of event history from a shutdown or reset.
The router’s event histories are structured to display the most recent events first and to make it easy to
distinguish error messages from informational messages. Error messages are prefixed with an asterisk. Both
the WAN Event History and Device Event History pages retain records of up to 128 of the most recent events.