802.11g Wireless 4-port Router User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Copyright
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Interference Statement
- ZyXEL Limited Warranty
- Customer Support
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Getting to Know Your ZyAIR
- 1.1 Introducing the ZyAIR
- 1.2 ZyAIR Features
- 1.2.1 Physical Features
- 1.2.2 Firmware Features
- 1.2.2.1 Internal RADIUS Server
- 1.2.2.2 Wi-Fi Protected Access
- 1.2.2.3 802.11b Wireless LAN Standard
- 1.2.2.4 802.11g Wireless LAN Standard
- 1.2.2.5 STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) / RSTP (Rapid STP)
- 1.2.2.6 Certificates
- 1.2.2.7 Limit the number of Client Connections
- 1.2.2.8 SSL Passthrough
- 1.2.2.9 Firewall
- 1.2.2.10 Brute-Force Password Guessing Protection
- 1.2.2.11 Wireless LAN MAC Address Filtering
- 1.2.2.12 WEP Encryption
- 1.2.2.13 IEEE 802.1X Network Security
- 1.2.2.14 Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
- 1.2.2.15 Dynamic DNS Support
- 1.2.2.16 PPPoE Support (RFC2516)
- 1.2.2.17 PPTP Encapsulation
- 1.2.2.18 Network Address Translation (NAT)
- 1.2.2.19 Traffic Redirect
- 1.2.2.20 NAT for Single-IP-address Internet Access
- 1.2.2.21 DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
- 1.2.2.22 Multicast
- 1.2.2.23 IP Alias
- 1.2.2.24 IP Policy Routing
- 1.2.2.25 SNMP
- 1.2.2.26 Full Network Management
- 1.2.2.27 Logging and Tracing
- 1.2.2.28 Diagnostics Capabilities
- 1.2.2.29 Embedded FTP and TFTP Servers
- 1.2.2.30 Wireless Association List
- 1.2.2.31 Wireless LAN Channel Usage
- 1.3 Applications for the ZyAIR
- Introducing the Web Configurator
- Wizard Setup
- System Screens
- LAN Screens
- Wireless Configuration and Roaming
- Wireless Security
- 7.1 Wireless Security Overview
- 7.2 Security Parameters Summary
- 7.3 WEP Overview
- 7.4 Configuring WEP Encryption
- 7.5 Introduction to WPA
- 7.6 Configuring WPA-PSK Authentication
- 7.7 Wireless Client WPA Supplicants
- 7.8 Configuring WPA Authentication
- 7.9 Introduction to RADIUS
- 7.10 Configuring RADIUS
- 7.11 802.1x Overview
- 7.12 Dynamic WEP Key Exchange
- 7.13 Configuring 802.1x and Dynamic WEP Key Exchange
- 7.14 Configuring 802.1x and Static WEP Key Exchange
- 7.15 Configuring 802.1x
- 7.16 MAC Filter
- Internal RADIUS Server
- WAN
- Single User Account (SUA) / Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Static Route Screens
- Remote Management Screens
- UPnP
- Firewalls
- Firewall Screens
- Content Filtering
- Certificates
- 17.1 Certificates Overview
- 17.2 Self-signed Certificates
- 17.3 Configuration Summary
- 17.4 My Certificates
- 17.5 Certificate File Formats
- 17.6 Importing a Certificate
- 17.7 Creating a Certificate
- 17.8 My Certificate Details
- 17.9 Trusted CAs
- 17.10 Importing a Trusted CA’s Certificate
- 17.11 Trusted CA Certificate Details
- Log Screens
- Maintenance
- Introducing the SMT
- General Setup
- Menu 2 WAN Setup
- LAN Setup
- Internet Access
- Remote Node Configuration
- Static Route Setup
- Dial-in User Setup
- Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Filter Configuration
- Enabling the Firewall
- SNMP Configuration
- System Security
- System Information and Diagnosis
- Firmware and Configuration File Maintenance
- System Maintenance and Information
- Remote Management
- Call Scheduling
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Appendix D
- Appendix E
- Appendix F
- Appendix G
- Appendix H
- Appendix I
- Appendix J
- Appendix K
- Appendix L
- Index
ZyAIR G-2000 Plus User’s Guide
59 Chapter 3 Wizard Setup
3.6.2 IP Address and Subnet Mask
Similar to the way houses on a street share a common street name, so too do computers on a
LAN share one common network number.
Where you obtain your network number depends on your particular situation. If the ISP or
your network administrator assigns you a block of registered IP addresses, follow their
instructions in selecting the IP addresses and the subnet mask.
If the ISP did not explicitly give you an IP network number, then most likely you have a single
user account and the ISP will assign you a dynamic IP address when the connection is
established. The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) reserved this block of addresses
specifically for private use; please do not use any other number unless you are told otherwise.
Let's say you select 192.168.1.0 as the network number; which covers 254 individual
addresses, from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254 (zero and 255 are reserved). In other words, the
first three numbers specify the network number while the last number identifies an individual
computer on that network.
Once you have decided on the network number, pick an IP address that is easy to remember,
for instance, 192.168.1.1, for your ZyAIR, but make sure that no other device on your network
is using that IP address.
The subnet mask specifies the network number portion of an IP address. Your ZyAIR will
compute the subnet mask automatically based on the IP address that you entered. You don't
need to change the subnet mask computed by the ZyAIR unless you are instructed to do
otherwise.
3.6.3 DNS Server Address Assignment
Use DNS (Domain Name System) to map a domain name to its corresponding IP address and
vice versa, for instance, the IP address of www.zyxel.com is 204.217.0.2. The DNS server is
extremely important because without it, you must know the IP address of a computer before
you can access it.
The ZyAIR can get the DNS server addresses in the following ways.
1 The ISP tells you the DNS server addresses, usually in the form of an information sheet,
when you sign up. If your ISP gives you DNS server addresses, enter them in the DNS
Server fields in DHCP Setup.
2 If the ISP did not give you DNS server information, leave the DNS Server fields in
DHCP Setup set to 0.0.0.0 for the ISP to dynamically assign the DNS server IP addresses.
3.6.4 WAN MAC Address
Every Ethernet device has a unique MAC (Media Access Control) address. The MAC address
is assigned at the factory and consists of six pairs of hexadecimal characters, for example,
00:A0:C5:00:00:02.