Wireless Firewall Router User's Guide

P-335 Series User’s Guide
Chapter 7 LAN 128
7.6 Advanced LAN Screen
To change your Prestige’s advanced IP settings, click the LAN link under Network and the
Advanced tab. The screen appears as shown.
Figure 64 Advanced
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 51 Advanced
LABEL DESCRIPTION
RIP Direction RIP (Routing Information Protocol, RFC1058 and RFC 1389) allows a router to
exchange routing information with other routers. The RIP Direction field
controls the sending and receiving of RIP packets. Select the RIP direction
from Both/In Only/Out Only/None. When set to Both or Out Only, the
Prestige will broadcast its routing table periodically. When set to Both or In
Only, it will incorporate the RIP information that it receives; when set to None,
it will not send any RIP packets and will ignore any RIP packets received.
Both is the default.
RIP Version The RIP Version field controls the format and the broadcasting method of the
RIP packets that the Prestige sends (it recognizes both formats when
receiving). RIP-1 is universally supported but RIP-2 carries more information.
RIP-1 is probably adequate for most networks, unless you have an unusual
network topology. Both RIP-2B and RIP-2M sends the routing data in RIP-2
format; the difference being that RIP-2B uses subnet broadcasting while RIP-
2M uses multicasting. Multicasting can reduce the load on non-router
machines since they generally do not listen to the RIP multicast address and
so will not receive the RIP packets. However, if one router uses multicasting,
then all routers on your network must use multicasting, also. By default, RIP
direction is set to Both and the Version set to RIP-1.
Multicast Select IGMP V-1 or IGMP V-2 or None. IGMP (Internet Group Multicast
Protocol) is a network-layer protocol used to establish membership in a
Multicast group - it is not used to carry user data. IGMP version 2 (RFC 2236)
is an improvement over version 1 (RFC 1112) but IGMP version 1 is still in
wide use. If you would like to read more detailed information about
interoperability between IGMP version 2 and version 1, please see sections 4
and 5 of RFC 2236.
Any IP Setup