23
•
Lan State - The CPE connection to the Local Area Network will be either
Link Up
or
Link Down
. If
the link is down, recheck the installation steps, make sure the CPE is powered on, and check the
router or other LAN device operation.
•
Devices Connected - A count of the number of different smart devices using the CPE
7.3 Configure WAN Settings
The
Network > WAN
Settings pertain to:
•
How the CPE interfaces with the Wide Area Network (WAN) - typically the Internet.
•
The network or operation mode, which determines how IP addressing is handled; and
•
The Domain Name System (DNS) to be used.
Because the GUI screens for the WAN Settings are laid out differently between CAT4 and CAT6/7/15, each
is described separately in the sections below. Refer to Table 5 for a description of all fields in both GUIs.
7.3.1 CAT4
To configure the
WAN Settings
on a CAT4 CPE (Figure 29, Table 5):
1.
Check that the
WAN Interface
is set to
LTE
, the default and only selection for this field.
2.
For
Network Mode
, configure the CAT4 CPE in either Network Address Translation (NAT) or
Bridge mode, depending on your network topology.
NAT allows multiple hosts on a private network to access the Internet using a single public IP
address. Bridge mode disables NAT and allows the CPE to create a Layer 2 (L2) link and function as
a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server without IP address confliction.
NOTE 1: If L2 has been enabled in the
VPN > L2
menu, the system will prompt you to disable those L2 settings
first before changing the network mode to Bridge. When you get this prompt, click
OK
, go to the
VPN > L2
menu, and select
Destroy
.
NOTE 2: Changing the Network Mode requires rebooting the CPE for the change to take effect.
3.
Configure one or more DNS servers. The DNS translates domain names such as
www.na.baicells.com
into their underlying IP addresses. The service provider may use DNS
servers to cache domain names frequented by its users, so the sites load more quickly in a
browser.
If you leave the
Manually DNS
checkbox unchecked, the CPE will check the first available DNS in
the network to resolve the domain name to IP address translation. If you select this checkbox,
you can specify a Primary DNS IP address and a Secondary DNS IP address.
