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Chapter 8 LAN
NBG-418N v2 User’s Guide
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The NBG-418N v2 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 Se rve r fields in the Wiza rd and/or WAN
> Inte rne t Co nne c tion screen.
2 If the ISP did not give you DNS server information, leave the DNS Se rve r fields set to 0.0.0.0 in the Wiza rd
screen and/or set to Fro m ISP in the WAN > Inte rnet Co nne c tion screen for the ISP to dynamically assign
the DNS server IP addresses.
8.2.3 IP Pool Se tup
The NBG-418N v2 is pre-configured with a pool of 32 IP addresses starting from 192.168.1.33 to
192.168.1.64. This configuration leaves 31 IP addresses (excluding the NBG-418N v2 itself) in the lower
range (192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.32) for other server computers, for instance, servers for mail, FTP, TFTP,
web, etc., that you may have.
8.2.4 LAN TCP/ IP
The NBG-418N v2 has built-in DHCP server capability that assigns IP addresses and DNS servers to systems
that support DHCP client capability.
8.3 LAN IP Sc re e n
Use this screen to change your basic LAN settings. Click Ne twork > LAN.
Fig ure 70 Network > LAN > IP
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 43 Network > LAN > IP
LABEL DESCRIPTION
IP Address Type the IP address of your NBG-418N v2 in dotted decimal notation 192.168.1.1 (factory
default).
IP Subnet Mask The subnet mask specifies the network number portion of an IP address. Your NBG-418N v2
will automatically calculate the subnet mask based on the IP address that you assign. Unless
you are implementing subnetting, use the subnet mask computed by the NBG-418N v2.
Apply Click Apply to save your changes back to the NBG-418N v2.
Reset Click Re se t to begin configuring this screen afresh.