User's Manual

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Connection Settings
WAN
Connection
Name
Indicate a name you wish to give this WAN connection
Enable
Click the checkbox to toggle the on and off state of this connection.
Routing Mode
This option allows you to select the routing method to be used in routing IP frames via the
WAN connection. The mode can be either NAT (Network Address Translation) or IP
Forwarding.
In the case if you need to choose IP Forwarding for your scenario. Click the button to
enable IP Forwarding.
Subnet
Selection
Choose between:
Auto: The subnet mask will be set automatically.
Force /31 Subnet: The subnet mask will be set as 255.255.255.254(/31), and the gateway IP
address will be recalculated.
Connection
Priority
This option allows you to configure the WAN connection whether for normal daily usage or as
a backup connection only.
If Always-on is chosen, the WAN connection will be kept on continuously, regardless of the
priority of other WAN connections.
If Backup is chosen, the WAN connection will depend on other WAN connections. It will not
be used when one or more higher priority dependent WAN connections are connected.
Independent
from Backup
WANs
If this is checked, the connection will be working independent from other Backup WAN
connections. Those in Backup Priority will ignore the status of this WAN connection, and will
be used when none of the other higher priority connections are available.
Idle Disconnect
If this is checked, the connection will disconnect when idle after the configured Time value.
This option is disabled by default.
DNS Servers
Each ISP may provide a set of DNS servers for DNS lookups. This setting specifies the
DNS (Domain Name System) servers to be used when a DNS lookup is routed through this
connection.
Selecting Obtain DNS server address automatically results in the DNS se
rvers