Installation guide

The Wave LAN, segments, and subnets 30-2
Chapter 30: Understanding Wave Data Networking
Wave Global Administrator Guide
Network services
Wave uses the following Microsoft Windows services for communications routing:
• Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS)
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
• Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)
• Domain Name Service (DNS)
Microsoft’s Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS)
RRAS is Microsoft’s open, extensible platform for routing and internetworking, offering
LAN-to-LAN networking and remote office connectivity over private wide-area networks
(WANs) or via the Internet using secure, virtual private networks (VPN).
You will configure much of Wave’s data configuration via RRAS, including configuring RRAS
interfaces (representations of connections over a network adaptor) and adaptors
(representations of the physical point of attachment to a network segment).
Note: For detailed information about RRAS, see the Microsoft Windows NT Routing and
Remote Access Service Administrator’s Guide.
The Wave LAN, segments, and subnets
When a network is composed of hubs and routers, segments and subnets are essentially the
same. When designing your network, follow these rules:
• Each port on a router has to be on the same subnet as all machines to which it is
connected.
• A machine’s subnet has to match that of the router closest to it.
• Only routed packets are propagated from one hub to another.
Note: A single switched Ethernet domain is faster and requires less system resources then
routing between segments.
Release 2.0
September 2010